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Job 14:17

Job 14:17

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

My transgression is sealed up in a bag (comp. ); i.e. God keeps account of all my transgressions. It is as if he put them all into a bag (compare "Put my tears into thy bottle," ), whence they can be taken out and brought against me at any moment.

They are "sealed up" in the bag for greater security. And thou sewest up mine iniquity. (So Ewald, Dillmaun, Canon Cook, and the Revised Version.) Others think the meaning to be, "Thou addest to my iniquity [continually];" i.

e. by placing fresh sins to my account. (So Schultens and Rosenmuller.

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