Job 7:21

Easy To Read Version

Why don’t you just pardon me\par for doing wrong?\par Why don’t you just forgive me\par for my sins?\par Soon I will die and be in my grave.\par Then you will search for me,\par but I will be gone.”\par

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:10

Then David felt ashamed after he had counted the people. David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly in what I did! Lord, I beg you, forgive me for my sin. I have been very foolish.”

Job 10:14

If I sinned, you would be watching me,\par so you could punish me\par for doing wrong.\par

Job 10:9

God, remember, you made me like clay.\par Will you make into clay again?\par

Job 13:19

If any person can prove I am wrong,\par then I will shut up immediately.\par

Job 14:10

But when man dies, he is finished!\par When man dies, he is gone.\par

Job 17:14

I might say to the grave,\par ‘You are my father,’\par and to the worms,\par ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister.’\par

Job 20:8

Like a dream, he will fly away\par and no one will ever find him.\par He will be forced away and forgotten\par like a bad dream. {\cf2\super [33]} \par

Job 27:19

An evil person might be rich\par when he goes to bed.\par But when he opens his eyes,\par all his riches will be gone.\par

Job 3:13

If I had died when I was born,\par I would be at peace now.\par I wish I were asleep and at rest\par

Job 33:9

You said:\par ‘I am pure.\par I am innocent\par I did nothing wrong.\par I am not guilty!\par

Job 7:8

And you won’t see me again.\par You will look for me,\par but I will be gone.\par

Job 8:1

Then Bildad from Shuah answered,

Job 9:28

It doesn’t really change anything.\par The suffering still scares me!\par

Psalm 103:15

God knows our lives are short.\par He knows our lives are like grass.\par

Psalm 37:36

But then he was gone.\par I looked for him,\par but I couldn’t find him.\par

Ecclesiastes 12:7

Your body came from the earth.\par And when you die,\par your body will go back to the earth.\par But your spirit came from God.\par And when you die,\par your spirit will go back to God.\par

Isaiah 26:19

\{But the Lord says,\}\par “Your people have died,\par but they will live again.\par The bodies of my people\par will rise from death.\par Dead people in the ground,\par stand and be happy!\par The dew covering you is like\par the dew sparkling in the light of a new day.\par It shows a new time is coming when the earth\par will give up the dead people\par that are in it.”\par

Isaiah 64:9

Lord, don’t continue to be angry with us!\par Don’t remember our sins forever!\par Please, look at us!\par We are your people.\par

Daniel 12:2

Many of the people that are dead and buried {\cf2\super [133]} will wake up. Some of them will wake up to have life forever. But some will wake up to have shame and disgrace forever.

Hosea 14:2

Think about the things you will say. And come back to the Lord. Say to him,

John 1:29

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him. John said, “Look, the Lamb of God. {\cf2\super [21]} He takes away the sins of the world!

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us. He died to free us from all evil. He died to make us pure people that belong only to him—people that are always wanting to do good things.

1 John 1:9

But if we confess (admit) our sins, then God will forgive our sins. We can trust God to do this. God does what is right. God will make us clean from all the wrong things we have done.

1 John 3:5

You know that Christ came to take away people’s sins. There is no sin in Christ.