Job 7:21

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

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  • Job 10:14 : 14 If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake– some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 Return to the LORD and repent! Say to him:“Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like you? Who forgives sin and pardons the rebellion of those who remain among his people? Who does not stay angry forever, but delights in showing loyal love? 19 Who will once again have mercy on us? Who will conquer our evil deeds? Who will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea?
  • John 1:29 : 29 On 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 : 14 He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.
  • 1 John 1:9 : 9 But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.
  • 2 Sam 24:10 : 10 David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the LORD,“I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O LORD, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember that you have made me as with the clay; will you return me to dust?
  • Job 13:23-24 : 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin. 24 Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?
  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I cry to corruption,‘You are my father,’ and to the worm,‘My mother,’ or‘My sister,’
  • Job 21:32-33 : 32 And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound, 33 The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.
  • Ps 37:36 : 36 But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.
  • Ps 103:15 : 15 A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.
  • Isa 64:9 : 9 LORD, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!
  • Lam 3:42-44 : 42 “We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.” 43 ס(Samek) You shrouded yourself with anger and then pursued us; you killed without mercy. 44 You shrouded yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
  • Lam 5:20-22 : 20 Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long? 21 Bring us back to yourself, O LORD, so that we may return to you; renew our life as in days before, 22 unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.

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