Job 7:21
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Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
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If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
And many who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, but others to shame and everlasting contempt.
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Do not be angry, O LORD, beyond measure; do not remember our iniquity forever. Oh, look upon us, we pray; we are all Your people!
For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest
He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.