17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
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Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-22)Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances. I. He complains of the particular hardships he apprehended himself under from the strictness of God’s justice, Job 14:16 , 17 . Therefore he longed to go hence to that world where God’s wrath will be past, because now he was under the continual tokens of…
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