Job 7:21
You do not take away my transgression, || And [do not] cause my iniquity to pass away, || Because now, I lie down in dust, || And You have sought me—and I am not!”
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2 Samuel 24:10And the heart of David strikes him, after that he has numbered the people, and David says to YHWH, “I have greatly sinned in that which I have done, and now, O YHWH, please cause the iniquity of Your servant to pass away, for I have acted very foolishly.”
Job 7:8The eye of my beholder does not behold me. Your eyes [are] on me—and I am not.
Job 10:14If I sinned, then You have observed me, || And do not acquit me from my iniquity,
Job 14:10And a man dies, and becomes weak, || And man expires, and where [is] he?
Job 20:8He flees as a dream, and they do not find him, || And he is driven away as a vision of the night,
Psalms 37:36And he passes away, and behold, he is not, || And I seek him, and he is not 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 →