Job 7:21 “Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For…”

Job 7:21

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

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And why doest thou not pardon my trespasse? and take away mine iniquitie? for nowe shall I sleepe in the dust, and if thou seekest me in the morning, I shall not be found.

Darby Translation

And why dost not thou forgive my transgression and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I lie down in the dust, and thou shalt seek me early, and I shall not be.

Young's Literal Translation

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!

Bible in Basic English

And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

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Cross references

“why dost”

Job 10:14 Isaiah 64:9 Lamentations 5:20–22 Lamentations 3:42–44 Job 13:23 Job 13:24

Job 10:14 · BSB

If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.

Isaiah 64:9 · BSB

Do 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 5:20–22 · BSB

Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?

Lamentations 3:42–44 · BSB

“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”

Job 13:23 · BSB

How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.

Job 13:24 · BSB

Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

“take away”

1 John 1:9 2 Samuel 24:10 Hosea 14:2 John 1:29 Titus 2:14 1 John 3:5

1 John 1:9 · BSB

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

2 Samuel 24:10 · BSB

After 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 ver…

Hosea 14:2 · BSB

Bring 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.

John 1:29 · BSB

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

Titus 2:14 · BSB

He 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 3:5 · BSB

But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.

“sleep”

Daniel 12:2 Ecclesiastes 12:7 Job 3:13 Job 17:14 Isaiah 26:19 Job 21:32

Daniel 12:2 · BSB

And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 · BSB

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Job 3:13 · BSB

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

Job 17:14 · BSB

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Isaiah 26:19 · BSB

Your 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.

Job 21:32 · BSB

He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

“but I shall not be”

Psalm 37:36 Psalm 103:15

Psalm 37:36 · BSB

yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.

Psalm 103:15 · BSB

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Also

Job 7:8 Job 10:9

Job 7:8 · BSB

The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.

Job 10:9 · BSB

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

20If I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You ?

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