Job 7:21
Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? 1 For now will I lie down in the dust; 1 you will seek me carefully, but I will not exist.”
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2 Samuel 24:10Then David's heart afflicted him after he had counted the men. So he said to Yahweh, “I have greatly sinned by doing this. Now, Yahweh, take away your servant's guilt, for I have acted very foolishly.”
Job 7:8The eye of God, who sees me, will see me no more; 1 God's eyes will be on me, but I will not exist. 1
Job 10:14that if I sinned, you would notice it; 1 you would not acquit me of my iniquity. 1
Job 14:10But man dies; he becomes weak; 1 indeed, man stops breathing, and then where is he? 1
Job 20:8He will fly away like a dream and will not be found; 1 indeed, he will be chased away like a vision of the night. 1
Psalms 37:36But when I passed by again, he was not there. 1 I looked for him, but he could not be found. 1
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 →