## Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? ##

Here Job uses two different clauses within a rhetorical question to emphasize his desire that God pardon his sin. He poses this question to rebuke God for making him suffer. AT: "Forgive my transgression and remove my iniquity." See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]] and [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

## Why do you not pardon my transgression ##

"Why not pardon my transgression?"

## take away ##

"remove"

## I will lie down in the dust ##

The phrase "lie down in the dust" is a mild or polite way of saying "die." "I will die" (see: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-euphemism]])