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Job 14:17 Cross-References
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“My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.”
Job 14:17 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 14:17
'My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.' Job describes God storing his 'transgression' (פִּשְׁעִי, pish'i) in a sealed bag (צְרוֹר, tseror) and sewing up his 'iniquity' (עֲוֹנִי, avoni). This imagery can be read two ways: (1) God carefully preserves evidence for judgment, or (2) God covers and hides sin. Context suggests the former—Job feels God meticulously records every fault. Yet this same imagery appears positively in Hosea 13:12 (sin stored for future reckoning) and negatively in Deuteronomy 32:34. The Gospel transforms this: Christ's blood covers our si...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 14:17
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“sealed up among my treasures?”
“The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.”
“'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself”