Job 10:14
Good News Translation
You were watching to see if I would sin, so that you could refuse to forgive me.

New Revised Standard Version
If I sin, you watch me, and do not acquit me of my iniquity.

Contemporary English Version
but you catch and punish me each time I sin.

New American Bible
If I should sin, you would keep a watch on me, and from my guilt you would not absolve me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?

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Job 13:26,27 For thou writest bitter things against me, and wilt consume me for the sins of my youth. . . .

Job 14:16 Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.

Psalm 130:3 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.

Psalm 139:1 Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:

thou wilt

Job 7:21 Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Exodus 34:7 Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.

Numbers 14:18 The Lord is patient and full of mercy, by taking away iniquity and wickedness, and leaving no man clear, who visitest the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Context
Job's Plea to God
13Although thou conceal these things in thy heart, yet I know that thou rememberest all things. 14If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?15And if I be wicked, woe unto me: and if just, I shall not lift up my head, being filled with affliction and misery.…
Cross References
Exodus 34:7
Who keepest mercy unto thousands: who takest away iniquity, and wickedness, and sin, and no man of himself is innocent before thee. Who renderest the iniquity of the fathers to the children, and to the grandchildren unto the third and fourth generation.

Job 7:20
I have sinned: what shall I do to thee, O keeper of men? why hast thou set me opposite to thee. and am I become burdensome to myself?

Job 7:21
Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Job 9:28
I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.

Job 33:9
I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.

Job 10:13
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