Job 14:17
My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and You sew up my iniquity.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
In Context
16But now, You number my steps, || You do not watch over my sin.
18And yet, a falling mountain wastes away, and a rock is removed from its place.
Cross References
Job 9:20If I am righteous, my mouth declares me wicked; [If] I am perfect, it declares me perverse.
Job 21:19God lays up for his sons his sorrow, || He gives repayment to him—and he knows.
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 →