Job 7:20

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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?

“You alone are the Lord.

You have made the heavens,

The heaven of heavens with all their host,
The earth and all that is on it,
The seas and all that is in them.

You give life to all of them

And the heavenly host bows down before You.

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God;
Your judgments are like a great deep.
O Lord, You preserve man and beast.

“Am I the sea, or the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?

“For the arrows of the Almighty are within me,

Their poison my spirit drinks;

The terrors of God are arrayed against me.

“I was at ease, but He shattered me,
And He has grasped me by the neck and shaken me to pieces;
He has also set me up as His target.

For You will make them turn their back;
You will aim with Your bowstrings at their faces.

He bent His bow
And set me as a target for the arrow.

“Therefore I will not restrain my mouth;
I will speak in the anguish of my spirit,
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries pour out like water.