19 Will you never look away from me,(A)
    or let me alone even for an instant?(B)
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,(C)
    you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?(D)
    Have I become a burden to you?[a](E)

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  1. Job 7:20 A few manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, an ancient Hebrew scribal tradition and Septuagint; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text I have become a burden to myself.

19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?

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19 How long?
Will You not look away from me,
And let me alone till I swallow my saliva?
20 Have I sinned?
What have I done to You, (A)O watcher of men?
Why (B)have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden [a]to myself?

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  1. Job 7:20 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Jewish tradition to You