Job 7:20

Job 13:26; Job 14:16; Job 16:12-14; Job 22:5; Job 3:24; Job 31:33; Job 33:27; Job 33:9; Job 6:4; Job 7:11; Job 7:12; Job 9:29-31; Lamentations 3:12; Nehemiah 9:6; Psalms 21:12; Psalms 36:6; Psalms 80:4

Related Commentaries of Job 7:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I have sinned - חטאתי châṭâ'tı̂y . This is a literal translation, and as it stands in the common version it is the language of a penitent -...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

I have (n) 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?...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job again gives utterance to his complaint. In the previous passage Job's tone, as in Job 3:11-19 , had become quieter, and his complaint almost an...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

men. Hebrew. 'adam. App-14. to myself. One of the emendations of the Sopherim (App-33), by which the primitive text "unto Thee" was altered...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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? I ha...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

I have sinned, &c.— As if he said, "Though I am no such wicked and ungodly wretch as these men imagine me to be, for thou knowest the uprightne...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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?...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

RV 'If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men?': i.e. granting that I have sinned (which Job does not), how can it affect Thee w...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I have sinned — i.e. , “Putting the case that I have sinned, yet what then can I do unto Thee, O thou keeper of men? “with a possible allusion to...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own hea...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Longing for the Evening Job 7:1-21 The servant eagerly longs for the lengthening shadow, which tells him that his day of labor is at an end, an...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Without waiting for their reply, Job broke out into a new lamentation, more bitter than the first, for it came out of a heart whose sorrow was aggrav...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(11) Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (12) Amos I a sea...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

I have sinned ,.... Some render it, "if I have sinned" w; be it so that I have, as my friends say, yet since there is forgiveness with thee, why sho...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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? Ve...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I have sinned Although I am free from those crying sins for which my friends suppose thou hast sent this uncommon judgment upon me; yet I freely co...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

DOES GOD NOT RECOMPENSE GOOD DEEDS? (vv.1-16) Job's questions in verse 1 indicate why he was so distressed at God's dealings. No doubt too his f...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18 And that thou shouldest visit him...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I have sinned: although I am innocent and free from those crying sins, for which my friends suppose thou hast sent this uncommon judgment upon me;...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CONTINUATION OF JOB’S SPEECH Job ceases to altercate with Eliphaz and to defend himself. Resumes his complaints, and ends by addressing himself...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Job 7:20 The great design of the book of Job, leaving out all detail and the undercurrents of the story, appears to be twofold: (1) to show that a...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job was sorely troubled by the cruel speeches of his friends, and he answered them out of the bitterness of his soul. What we are first about to read...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 7:1 . Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? הלא צבא hela zaba, Nonne militia est homini super terra, et sicut dies mercenarii di...
The Biblical Illustrator

I have sinned; what shall I do unto Thee, O Thou Preserver of men! The sinner’s surrender to his Preserver I. A confession. “I have sinned.” I...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 7:1-18 In this chapter Job first bewails his miserable fate, of which he expects no alleviation (verses 1-10); then claims a...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Arraigns God
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I have sinned; what shall I do unto Thee, O thou Preserver of men? The thought is really conditional: If I have sinned, what harm could thereby strik...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sinned — Although I am free from those crying sins, for which my friends suppose thou hast sent this judgment upon me, yet, I freely confess I am a...

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?

Related Commentaries of Job 7:20

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 7:20