Job 14:17
My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
BSB
ASV
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.
KJV
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
My transgression is sealed up - The verb rendered sealed up (חתם châtham) means to seal, to close, to shut up; see the notes at Isa 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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
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But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
Although you wash with lye and use an abundance of soap, the stain of your guilt is still before Me,” declares the Lord GOD.
Through
Job 21:19It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
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You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth…
Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
Surely He took on our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken by God, struck down and afflicted.
“In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
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Hosea 13:12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
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“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?