20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,(A)
    you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?(B)
    Have I become a burden to you?[a](C)

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Footnotes

  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.

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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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

For he says, ‘There is no profit
    in trying to please God.’(A)

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For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.

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For (A)he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing
That he should delight in God.’

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Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,[a]
    and what do I gain by not sinning?’(A)

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  1. Job 35:3 Or you

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

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For (A)you say,
‘What advantage will it be to You?
What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?’

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13 Surely in vain(A) I have kept my heart pure
    and have washed my hands in innocence.(B)

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13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

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13 Surely I have [a]cleansed my heart in (A)vain,
And washed my hands in innocence.

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  1. Psalm 73:13 kept my heart pure in vain