Job 14:17
Sealed up in a bag, is my transgression, and thou hast glued over mine iniquity.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
In Context
16For, now, my steps, thou countest, Thou wilt not pass over my sin:
18But, in very deed, a mountain falling, will lie prostrate, or, a rock moved out of its place:
Cross References
Job 9:20If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me,—I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.
Job 21:19Shall, GOD, reserve, for his children, his sorrow? Let him recompense him so 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 →