the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Job 14:17
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My rebellion would be sealed up in a bag,and you would cover over my iniquity.
My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
My wrongs will be closed up in a bag, and you will cover up my sin.
My offenses would be sealed up in a bag; you would cover over my sin.
"My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You cover my wickedness [from Your view].
"My wrongdoing is sealed up in a bag, And You cover over my guilt.
My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
Mine iniquitie is sealed vp, as in a bagge, and thou addest vnto my wickednesse.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag,And You cover up my iniquity.
My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
you would put them in a bag, tie it tight, and toss them away.
You will seal up my crime in a bag and cover over my iniquity.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou heapest up mine iniquity.
It would be as if you had sealed my sins in a bag. It would be as if you had covered my guilt with plaster.
My transgressions are sealed up in a bag, and thou removest from me my sins.
You will forgive them and put them away; you will wipe out all the wrongs I have done.
My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and you would cover over my guilt.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my iniquity.
Thou hast sealed vp myne offences, as it were in a bagg: but be mercifull vnto my wickednesse.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.
My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou heapest up mine iniquity.
My transgression is sealed vp in a bagge, and thou sowest vp mine iniquitie.
Myne iniquitie is sealed vp as it were in a bagge, and thou addest [punishement] vnto my wickednesse.
An thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou fastenest up mine iniquity.
Thou hast seelid as in a bagge my trespassis, but thou hast curid my wickidnesse.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And you fasten up my iniquity.
My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up my iniquity.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag,And You cover [fn] my iniquity.
My sins would be sealed in a pouch, and you would cover my guilt.
My sin is locked up in a bag. You cover my wrong-doing.
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
Sealed up in a bag, is my transgression, and thou hast glued over mine iniquity.
Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest cover over my iniquity.
Sealed up in a bag [is] my transgression, And Thou sewest up mine iniquity.
"My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You wrap up my iniquity.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
sealed up: Job 21:19, Deuteronomy 32:34, Hosea 13:12
Reciprocal: Job 40:2 - he that reproveth Psalms 139:3 - compassest Jeremiah 2:22 - yet thine iniquity Jeremiah 32:10 - and sealed James 5:3 - Ye have
Cross-References
Jephthah came home to Mizpah. His daughter ran from the house to welcome him home—dancing to tambourines! She was his only child. He had no son or daughter except her. When he realized who it was, he ripped his clothes, saying, "Ah, dearest daughter—I'm dirt. I'm despicable. My heart is torn to shreds. I made a vow to God and I can't take it back!"
As they returned home, after David had killed the Philistine, the women poured out of all the villages of Israel singing and dancing, welcoming King Saul with tambourines, festive songs, and lutes. In playful frolic the women sang, Saul kills by the thousand, David by the ten thousand! This made Saul angry—very angry. He took it as a personal insult. He said, "They credit David with ‘ten thousands' and me with only ‘thousands.' Before you know it they'll be giving him the kingdom!" From that moment on, Saul kept his eye on David.
While alive, Absalom had erected for himself a pillar in the Valley of the King, "because," he said, "I have no son to carry on my name." He inscribed the pillar with his own name. To this day it is called "The Absalom Memorial."
An unlucky loser is shunned by all, but everyone loves a winner.
Wealth attracts friends as honey draws flies, but poor people are avoided like a plague.
Melchizedek was king of Salem and priest of the Highest God. He met Abraham, who was returning from "the royal massacre," and gave him his blessing. Abraham in turn gave him a tenth of the spoils. "Melchizedek" means "King of Righteousness." "Salem" means "Peace." So, he is also "King of Peace." Melchizedek towers out of the past—without record of family ties, no account of beginning or end. In this way he is like the Son of God, one huge priestly presence dominating the landscape always.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag,.... Denoting either the concealment of it, as in Hosea 13:12; not from God; nor in such sense sealed up as sin is by the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ, who has thereby removed it out of the sight of divine justice; so that when it is sought for it shall not be found, nor any more seen, which is the sense of the phrase in Daniel 9:24; where the words, "to make an end of sin", may be rendered, to "seal [them] up"; but this Job would not have complained of; he means it was hid as in a bag from himself, or he knew not what it was; the transgression was sealed up from him, he was entirely ignorant of and unacquainted with what it was for which he was severely afflicted: or else his sense is, that God had taken strict notice of his transgressions, and had, as it were, put them up in a bag, and set a seal upon it, that none might be lost, but might be ready to be produced against him another day; in allusion, as it is thought, to bills of indictment put up in bags sealed, to be brought into courts of judicature at a proper time, for which they are reserved:
and thou sewest up mine iniquity; in the bag in which it is sealed; not only did he seal up the bag, but sewed a cloth over it thus sealed, for greater security: or "thou sewest to mine iniquity" m, or adds iniquity to iniquity, as in Psalms 69:27; as arithmeticians do, who add one number to another until it becomes a great sum; thus God, according to Job, tacked and joined one sin to another, till it became one large heap and pile, reaching to the heavens, and calling for vengeance; or, as Sephorno interprets it, joined sins of ignorance to sins of presumption; or rather sewed or added the punishment of sin to sin, or punishment to punishment; the Targum is,
"my transgression is sealed up in a book of remembrances, and thou hast joined it to my iniquities.''
m ותטפל על עוני "assuis iniquitati meae", Piscator; "et adjungis ad iniquitatem meam", Beza.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My 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 bı̂tserôr. So Jerome, “in sacculo.” So the Septuagint, ἐν βαλαντίῳ en balantiō. The word צרור tserôr means usually a “bundle” 1 Samuel 25:29; Song of Solomon 1:13, or anything bound up (compare Job 26:8; Hosea 13:12; Exodus 12:34; Proverbs 26:8; Isaiah 8:16; Genesis 42:35; Song of Solomon 1:13; Proverbs 7:20); but here it is not improperly rendered a bag. The idea is, that they were counted and numbered like money, and then sealed up and carefully put away. God had made an accurate estimate of their number, and he seemed carefully to guard and observe them - as a man does bags of gold - so that none might be lost. His sins seemed to have become a sort of valuable treasure to the Almighty, none of which he allowed now to escape his notice.
And thou sewest up mine iniquity - Noyes renders this, “and thou addest unto mine iniquity.” Good, “thou tiest together mine iniquity.” The word used here טפל ṭâphal means properly to patch; to patch together; to sew to join together as carpenters do their work; and then to devise or forge - as a falsehood; - to join a malicious charge to a person. Thus, in Psalms 119:69, “The proud have “forged a lie” (שׁקר טפלוּ ṭâphalô sheqer) against me,” that is, they have joined a lie to me, or devised this story about me. So in Job 13:4, “Ye are forgers of lies.” The word does not occur elsewhere. The Greeks have a similar expression in the phrase ῥάπτειν ἔπη raptein epē - from where the word ῥαψῳδὸς rapsōdos. The word here, it seems to me, is used in the sense of sewing up money in a bag, as well as sealing it. This is done when there are large sums, to avoid the inconvenience of counting it. The sum is marked on the bag, and a seal affixed to it to authenticate it, and it is thus passed from one to another without the trouble of counting. If a seal is placed on the bag, it will circulate for its assigned value, without being opened for examination. It is usual now in the East for a bag to contain five hundred piastres, and hence, such a sum is called “a purse,” and amounts are calculated by so many “purses;” see Harmer, ii. 285, Chardin, and Pict. Bible in loc. The sense here is, that God had carefully numbered his sins, and marked them, and meant that none of them should escape. He regarded them as very great. They could now be referred to in the gross, without the trouble of casting up the amount again. The sins of a man’s past life are summed up and marked with reference to the future judgment.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 14:17. My 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 the land. Some suppose the allusion is to money sealed up in bags; which is common in the East. This includes two ideas:
1. Job's transgressions were all numbered; not one was passed by.
2. They were sealed up; so that none of them could be lost. These bags were indifferently sewed or sealed, the two words in the text.
