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 sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin.

Lord, do not be too angry! Do not hold our sins against us continually! Take a good look at your people, at all of us!

"We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven."

Why do you keep on forgetting us? Why do you forsake us so long?

Take away

David felt guilty after he had numbered the army. David said to the Lord, "I have sinned greatly by doing this! Now, O Lord, please remove the guilt of your servant, for I have acted very foolishly."

There is no other God like you! You forgive sin and pardon the rebellion of those who remain among your people. You do not remain angry forever, but delight in showing loyal love.

Return to the Lord and repent! Say to him: "Completely forgive our iniquity; accept our penitential prayer, that we may offer the praise of our lips as sacrificial bulls.

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

He gave himself for us to set us free from every kind of lawlessness and to purify for himself a people who are truly his, who are eager to do good.

But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.

And you know that Jesus was revealed to take away sins, and in him there is no sin.

Sleep

For now I would be lying down and would be quiet, I would be asleep and then at peace

If I cry to corruption, 'You are my father,' and to the worm, 'My Mother,' or 'My sister,'

And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

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

Your dead will come back to life; your corpses will rise up. Wake up and shout joyfully, you who live in the ground! For you will grow like plants drenched with the morning dew, and the earth will bring forth its dead spirits.

Many of those who sleep in the dusty ground will awake -- some to everlasting life, and others to shame and everlasting abhorrence.

In the morning

And that you visit them every morning, and try them every moment?

But i shall not be

But then one passes by, and suddenly they have disappeared! I looked for them, but they could not be found.

A person's life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,