Job 7:21

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Why dost

Lamentations 5:20

Take away

1 John 3:5

Sleep

In the morning

Job 7:18

But i shall not be

Psalm 37:36

Psalm 103:15

Bible References

Why dost

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

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

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

We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

Take away

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: and now, I beseech thee, O LORD, take away the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.

Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him, Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.

The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

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

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

Sleep

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.

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.

In the morning

And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

But i shall not be

Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

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