Job 7:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lie in the earth; you will seek me, but I shall not be.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, And take away mine iniquity? For now shall I sleep in the dust; And thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; and [even if] You will seek me diligently, [it will be too late, for] I shall not be.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

Common English Bible

²¹ Why not forgive my sin, overlook my iniquity? Then I would lie down in the dust; you would search hard for me, and I would not exist.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Why do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold, now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning I shall not be.

Job 7:21 Cross References

2 Samuel 24:10

But afterward, David was stricken to the heart because he had numbered the people. David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. But now, O Lord, I pray you, take away the guilt of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.”

Job 10:14

If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

Job 10:9

Remember that you fashioned me like clay, and will you turn me to dust again?

Job 13:19

Who is there who will contend with me? For then I would be silent and die.

Job 14:10

But mortals die and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?

Job 17:14

if I say to the Pit, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’

Job 20:8

They will fly away like a dream and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Job 27:19

They go to bed with wealth but will do so no more; they open their eyes, and it is gone.

Job 3:13

Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest

Job 33:9

You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.

Job 7:8

The eye that beholds me will see me no more; while your eyes are upon me, I shall be gone.

Job 8:1

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:

Job 9:28

I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

Psalm 103:15

As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field;

Psalm 37:36

Again I passed by, and they were no more; though I sought them, they could not be found.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the breath returns to God who gave it.

Isaiah 26:19

Your dead shall live; their corpses shall rise. Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy! For your dew is a radiant dew, and the earth will give birth to those long dead.

Isaiah 64:9

Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, and do not remember iniquity forever. Now consider, we are all your people.

Daniel 12:2

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Hosea 14:2

Take words with you and return to the Lord; say to him, “Take away all guilt; accept that which is good, and we will offer the fruit of our lips.

John 1:29

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and declared, “Here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

Titus 2:14

He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 3:5

You know that he was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.