Job 14:17
My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
In Context
16But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
18“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
Cross References
Job 9:20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
Job 21:19You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
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 →