Job 14:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

Job 14:17 —

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Cross-References

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Deuteronomy 32:34
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
Hosea 13:12
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
Job 21:19
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Topics

Day Depravity of Man Guilt Jesus, the Christ Judgment Popular Sins Rebellion Sin

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 i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. sealed up--(Job 9:7). Is shut up in eternal oblivion, that is, God thenceforth will think no more of my former sins. To cover sins is to completely forgive them (Psa 32:1; 85:2). Purses of money in the East are usually sealed. sewest up--rather, “coverest”; akin to an Arabic word, “to color over,” to forget wholly.