en_tn/job/07/21.md

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)