Job 7:20
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"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?"
Word-by-Word Analysis
חָטָא
châṭâʼ
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
נָצַר
nâtsar
to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
שָׁמַר
shâmar
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
מַשָּׂא
massâʼ
a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing; mental, desire
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Key Terms in This Verse
נָצַר nâtsar
to guard, in a good sense (to protect, maintain, obey, etc.) or a bad one (to conceal, etc.)
Study H5341 →שָׁמַר shâmar
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
Study H8104 →מַשָּׂא massâʼ
a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing; mental, desire
Study H4853 →בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →חָטָא châṭâʼ
properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
Study H2398 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →קִרְאָה qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Study H7125 →Cross References
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:
For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.
I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest t...
If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?
O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
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