Job 7:21
If I have sinned, are you not able to forgive me for my sins— the things that I have done that are wrong? Soon I will lie in my grave; you will search for me, but you will not find me because I will be dead and gone.”
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2 Samuel 24:10But after David’s men had counted the people, David regretted [IDM] that he had told them to do that. One night he said to Yahweh, “I have committed a very big sin. Please forgive me, because what I have done is very foolish.”
Job 7:8God, you [SYN] see me now, but some day you will not see me any more. You will search for me, but I will be gone because I will be dead.
Job 10:14You were watching to see if I would sin, in order that if I sinned, you would refuse to forgive me.
Job 14:10But when we people lose all our strength and die, we stop breathing and then we are gone forever.
Job 20:8They will be forgotten like [SIM] a dream is, and they will exist no more. They will vanish, like visions that people see during the night.
Psalms 37:36when I looked later, they were gone! I searched for them, but Yahweh had caused them to disappear.
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 →