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
LORD, thou alone hast made heaven, and the heaven of all heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is therein, the sea and all that is therein: thou givest life unto all, and the host of heaven bow themselves unto thee.
Psalm 36:6
Thy righteousness standeth like the strong mountains; thy judgments are like the great deep. Thou, LORD, shalt save both man and beast.

Why hast

Job 7:12
Am I a sea, or a whalefish, that thou keepest me so in prison?
Job 6:4
For the arrows of the almighty are in me, whose indignation hath drunk up my spirit, and the terrible fears of God fight against me.
Job 16:12
I was some time in wealth, but suddenly hath he brought me to naught. He hath taken me by the neck, he hath rent me, and set me, as it were a mark for him to shoot at.
Psalm 21:12
Therefore shalt thou put them to flight, and the strings of thy bow shalt thou make ready against the face of them.
Lamentations 3:12
He hath bent his bow, and made me as it were a mark to shoot at.

I am

Job 7:11
Therefore I will not spare my mouth, but will speak in the trouble of my spirit; in that bitterness of my mind will I talk.
Job 3:24
For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.