Job 7:21 Cross References - BBE

²¹ And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

¹⁰ And after the people had been numbered, David's heart was troubled. And David said to the Lord, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, O Lord, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly

¹³ For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

⁸ The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

⁹ O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

¹⁴ That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:

²³ What is the number of my evil-doings and my sins? give me knowledge of them. ²⁴ Why is your face veiled from me, as if I was numbered among your haters?

¹⁴ If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

³² He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it. ³³ The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

³⁶ But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

¹⁹ Your dead will come back; their dead bodies will come to life again. Those in the dust, awaking from their sleep, will send out a song; for your dew is a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the shades.

⁹ Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

⁴² We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness. ⁴³ Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity; ⁴⁴ Covering yourself with a cloud, so that prayer may not get through.

²⁰ Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long? ²¹ Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past. ²² But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us.

² And a number of those who are sleeping in the dust of the earth will come out of their sleep, some to eternal life and some to eternal shame.

² Take with you words, and come back to the Lord; say to him, Let there be forgiveness for all wrongdoing, so that we may take what is good, and give in payment the fruit of our lips.

¹⁸ Who is a God like you, offering forgiveness for evil-doing and overlooking the sins of the rest of his heritage? he does not keep his wrath for ever, because his delight is in mercy. ¹⁹ He will again have pity on us; he will put our sins under his feet: and you will send all our sins down into the heart of the sea.

²⁹ The day after, John sees Jesus coming to him and says, See, here is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

¹⁴ Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

⁹ If we say openly that we have done wrong, he is upright and true to his word, giving us forgiveness of sins and making us clean from all evil.

⁵ And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.