Job 7:21
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
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2 Samuel 24:10After David had numbered the troops, his conscience was stricken and he said to the LORD, “I have sinned greatly in what I have done. Now, O LORD, I beg You to take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have acted very foolishly.”
Job 7:8The eye that beholds me will no longer see me. You will look for me, but I will be no more.
Job 10:14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
Job 14:10But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
Psalms 37:36yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
Matthew Henry on Job 7:18-21
17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment? 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle? 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself? 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in… Read the whole commentary →