Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

O thou preserver

Bible References

O thou preserver

Nehemiah 9:6
Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
Psalm 36:6
Thy righteousness is like the mountains of God; Thy judgments are a great deep: O Jehovah, thou preservest man and beast.

Why hast

Job 7:12
Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That thou settest a watch over me?
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Job 16:12
I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.
Psalm 21:12
For thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

I am

Job 7:11
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.
Job 3:24
For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

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