Job 7:21

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Job 10:14 : 14 If I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
  • Dan 12:2 : 2 Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
  • Hos 14:2 : 2 Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, "Forgive all our sins, And accept that which is good: So we offer like bulls our lips.
  • Mic 7:18-19 : 18 Who is a God like you, who pardons iniquity, And passes over the disobedience of the remnant of his heritage? He doesn't retain his anger forever, Because he delights in loving kindness. 19 He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; And you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.
  • John 1:29 : 29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
  • Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
  • 1 John 1:9 : 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
  • 1 John 3:5 : 5 You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
  • 2 Sam 24:10 : 10 David's heart struck him after that he had numbered the people. David said to Yahweh, I have sinned greatly in that which I have done: but now, Yahweh, put away, I beg you, the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.
  • Job 3:13 : 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
  • Job 7:8 : 8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
  • Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?
  • Job 13:23-24 : 23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin. 24 Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?
  • Job 17:14 : 14 If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' To the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
  • Job 21:32-33 : 32 Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb. 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
  • Ps 37:36 : 36 But he passed away, and, behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
  • Ps 103:15 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.
  • Isa 26:19 : 19 Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
  • Isa 64:9 : 9 Don't be angry very sore, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look, we beg you, we are all your people.
  • Lam 3:42-44 : 42 We have transgressed and have rebelled; you have not pardoned. 43 You have covered with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied. 44 You have covered yourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
  • Lam 5:20-22 : 20 Why do you forget us forever, [And] forsake us so long time? 21 Turn you us to you, Yahweh, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. 22 But you have utterly rejected us; You are very angry against us.

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  • Job 7:19-20
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    19 How long will you not look away from me, Nor leave me alone until I swallow down my spittle?

    20 If I have sinned, what do I do to you, you watcher of men? Why have you set me as a mark for you, So that I am a burden to myself?

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13 "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

    14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Until my release should come.

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6 That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin?

    7 Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

  • Job 10:14-15
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    77%

    14 If I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.

    15 If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still shall not lift up my head, Being filled with disgrace, And conscious of my affliction.

  • 9 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?

  • 4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

  • Job 9:28-29
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    76%

    28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

    29 I shall be condemned; Why then do I labor in vain?

  • 19 Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

  • Job 10:20-21
    2 verses
    76%

    20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

    21 Before I go where I shall not return from, To the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

  • 32 Teach me that which I don't see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more'?

  • 7 There the upright might reason with him, So I should be delivered forever from my judge.

  • 2 I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me.

  • 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?

  • 9 I will bear the indignation of Yahweh, Because I have sinned against him, Until he pleads my case, and executes judgment for me. He will bring me forth to the light. I will see his righteousness.

  • Job 13:22-24
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    75%

    22 Then call, and I will answer; Or let me speak, and you answer me.

    23 How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.

    24 Why hide you your face, And hold me for your enemy?

  • Job 7:11-13
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    11 "Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

    12 Am I a sea, or a sea-monster, That you put a guard over me?

    13 When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;'

  • 35 Yet you said, I am innocent; surely his anger is turned away from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with you, because you say, I have not sinned.

  • 8 Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 6 Therefore I abhor myself, And repent in dust and ashes."

  • 8 The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.

  • 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

  • 3 That you ask, 'What advantage will it be to you? What profit shall I have, more than if I had sinned?'

  • 8 "But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;

  • Job 14:16-17
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    16 But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?

    17 My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

  • 13 For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,

  • 14 What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?

  • 18 For I will declare my iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin.

  • 13 If I look for Sheol as my house, If I have spread my couch in the darkness,

  • 19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

  • 9 Hide your face from my sins, And blot out all of my iniquities.

  • 15 Where then is my hope? As for my hope, who shall see it?

  • 2 Don't enter into judgment with your servant, For in your sight no man living is righteous.

  • 9 'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

  • 7 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry for help, but there is no justice.

  • 18 "'Why, then, have you brought me forth out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

  • 33 If like Adam I have covered my transgressions, By hiding my iniquity in my heart,

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    3 Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands,

  • 6 If you were pure and upright, Surely now he would awaken for you, And make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

  • 4 Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.