Job 7:21 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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 shall seek me diligently, 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

And David's heart smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto the LORD, I have sinned greatly in that I have done: but now, O LORD, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

Job 10:14

If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

Job 10:9

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?

Job 13:19

Who is he that will contend with me? For now shall I hold my peace and give up the ghost.

Job 14:10

But man dieth, and wasteth away: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

Job 17:14

If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;

Job 20:8

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Job 27:19

He lieth down rich, but he shall not be gathered; He openeth his eyes, and he is not.

Job 3:13

For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest:

Job 33:9

I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:

Job 7:8

The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more: Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.

Job 8:1

Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,

Job 9:28

I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

Psalm 103:15

As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Psalm 37:36

But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

and the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return unto God who gave it.

Isaiah 26:19

Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

Isaiah 64:9

Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

Daniel 12:2

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Hosea 14:2

Take with you words, and return unto the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and accept that which is good: so will we render as bullocks the offering of our lips.

John 1:29

On the morrow he seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world!

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.

1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 3:5

And ye know that he was manifested to take away sins; and in him is no sin.