Job 7:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.””
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“Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me--and I am not!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 7:21 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 24:10After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
- Job 3:13For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
- Job 7:8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
- Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
- Job 10:14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
- Job 13:23How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
- Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
- Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
- Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
- Job 21:32He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
- Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
- Psalms 103:15As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
- Ecclesiastes 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
- Isaiah 26:19Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her dead.
- Isaiah 64:9Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
- Lamentations 3:42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
- Lamentations 5:20Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
- Daniel 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Hosea 14:2Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.
- Micah 7:18Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance— who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
- 1 John 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
- 1 John 3:5But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
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