Job 7:21

Job pleads for God to pardon his sin before he dies and is gone, when God will seek him but find him no more. He appeals for mercy while there is still time.

Cross-references · 22

• Dan 12:2And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Job 10:14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
• Eccl 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Isa 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!
• Lam 5:20–22Why have You forgotten us forever? Why have You forsaken us for so long?
• Ps 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
• Isa 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1 Jn 3:5But you know that Christ appeared to take away sins, and in Him there is no sin.
• 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!
• 2 Sam 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.”
• Ps 103:15As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
• Hos 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.
• Job 13:23–24How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
• Mic 7:18–19Who 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?
• Job 21:32–33He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
• Job 17:14and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
• Lam 3:42–44“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”
• Job 10:9Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

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