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 12:2Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Job 10:14if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
• Eccl 12:7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• 1 Jn 1:9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
• Isa 64:9Don’t be furious, Yahweh, and don’t remember iniquity forever. Look and see, we beg you, we are all your people.
• Lam 5:20–22Why do you forget us forever, And forsake us so long time?
• Ps 37:36But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
• Isa 26:19Your dead shall live. My dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is like the dew of herbs, and the earth will cast out the departed spirits.
• Titus 2:14who 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.
• Job 3:13For now should I have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,
• Job 7:8The eye of him who sees me shall see me no more. Your eyes shall be on me, but I shall not be.
• 1 Jn 3:5You know that he was revealed to take away our sins, and in him is no sin.
• John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
• 2 Sam 24:10David’s heart struck him after he had counted 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.”
• Ps 103:15As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
• Hos 14:2Take words with you, and return to Yahweh. Tell him, “Forgive all our sins, and accept that which is good: so we offer our lips like bulls.
• Job 13:23–24How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
• Mic 7:18–19Who 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.
• Job 21:32–33Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
• Job 17:14If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’
• Lam 3:42–44“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.
• Job 10:9Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

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