Job 14:17
Sealed up in a bag is my transgression, and thou yet addest to my iniquity.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
In Context
16Yet now thou numberest my steps: and thou waitest not with [the punishment of] my sin.
18But truly a falling mountain will crumble, and [even] a rock is moved out of its place.
Cross References
Job 9:20If I were righteous even, my own mouth would condemn me: were I innocent, it would still prove me perverse.
Job 21:19Should God lay up for his children his wrong-doing? it were better that he reward him, that he might know it himself.
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 →