Job 7:21: Why dost Thou not pardon my transgression?

God of all power, and truth, and love,
Why dost Thou not my sin forgive,
While yet I may Thy mercy prove,
While yet I in the body live?
A moment sinks me into dust,
A moment ends my course below,
And then, inexorably just.
Thou never canst Thy mercy show.

What can I say, what can I do
But humbly still for mercy sue.
Persisting in the sinner's plea.
My God, be merciful to me!
I use the humble words in vain.
Unless the penitential pain,
Jesus, Thy pitying eye impart.
And cast the look that breaks my heart.