Job 14:17

Job 14:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
• New International Version (NIV)My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.
• English Standard Version (ESV)my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
• New King James Version (NKJV)My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You cover my iniquity.

Context of Job 14:17

15You would call and I would answer, and you would yearn for me, your handiwork. 16For then you would guard my steps, instead of watching for my sins. My sins would be sealed in a pouch, and you would cover my guilt. 18“But instead, as mountains fall and crumble and as rocks fall from a cliff, 19as water wears away the stones and floods wash away the soil, so you destroy people’s hope.

Job 14:17 word by word

חָתֻ֣ם בִּצְר֣וֹר פִּשְׁעִ֑י וַ֝תִּטְפֹּ֗ל עַל־עֲוֹנִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• My transgressionפֶּ֫שַׁעpesha‛ · transgressionH6588
• sealed upחָתַםchâtham · to sealH2856
• in a bagצְרוֹרtserôr tserôr · bundleH6872
• and thou sewest upטָפַלţâphal · to smearH2950
• mine iniquityעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771

Cross-references for Job 14:17

• Job 21:19“‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!’ But I say he should punish the ones who sin, so that they understand his judgment.
• Deuteronomy 32:34“The Lord says, ‘Am I not storing up these things, sealing them away in my treasury?
• Hosea 13:12“Ephraim’s guilt has been collected, and his sin has been stored up for punishment.

Commentaries on Job 14:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17My transgression is sealed up in a bag - An allusion to the custom of collecting evidence of state transgressions, sealing them up in a bag, and presenting them to the judges and officers of state to be examined, in order to trial and judgment. Just at this time (July, 1820) charges of state transgressions, sealed up in a Green Bag, and presented to the two houses of parliament, for the examination of a secret committee, are making a considerable noise in…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17My transgression is sealed up - The verb rendered sealed up (חתם châtham ) means to seal, to close, to shut up; see the notes at Isaiah 8:16; compare the notes at Job 9:7. It was common with the ancients to use a seal where we use a lock. Money was counted and put into a bag, and a seal was attached to it. Hence, a seal might be put to a bag, as a sort of certificate of the amount, and to save the necessity of counting it again. In a bag - - בצרור…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-22Verses 16-22 Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who contend with him. God may send disease and pain, we may lose all comfort in those near and dear to us, every hope of earthly happiness may be destroyed, but God will receive the believer into realms of eternal happiness. But what a change awaits the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17If transgression becomes sealed in a bag, it does not wait for judgment (Deuteronomy 32:34–35; Hosea 13:12). It remains hidden forever. Job was asking for God to forgive him.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. 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.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 14:17

• Judgment
• Sin

In the dictionaries

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• Born
• Change
• Clean
• Plow
• Raise
• Sew
• Stock
• Wait
• Waste

Commentaries on Job 14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings