Job 7:21

Job chapter 7 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

Context

v.20If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for thee, So that I am a burden to myself?

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Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 3:13

    For now should I have lain down and been quiet; I should have slept; then had I been at rest,

  • Daniel 12:2

    And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

  • Psalms 37:36

    But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Isaiah 64:9

    Be not wroth very sore, O Jehovah, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, look, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.

  • Isaiah 26:19

    Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

  • Job 10:14

    If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.