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19 Will you ever look away from me,
or leave me alone long enough to swallow?[a]
20 If I have sinned, what have I done to you,
Watcher of humanity?
Why have you made me your target,(A)
so that I have become a burden to you?[b]
21 Why not forgive my sin
and pardon my iniquity?(B)
For soon I will lie down in the grave.(C)
You will eagerly seek me, but I will be gone.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:19 Lit swallow my saliva?
  2. 7:20 Alt Hb tradition, LXX; MT, Vg read myself