Job 14:17
You have sealed up my offenses, as if in a purse, but you have cured my iniquity.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
In Context
16Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins.
18A falling mountain flows away, and a stone is transferred from its place.
Cross References
Job 9:20If I wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved.
Job 21:19God will preserve the grief of the father for his sons, and, when he repays, then he will understand.
Matthew Henry on Job 14:17-22
Complainings of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. 18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. 19 The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him… Read the whole commentary →