Verse 21

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."

Referenced Verses

  • 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.