“ 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 Isaiah 8:16 ; compare the notes at Job 9:7 . It was common w...
My transgression [is] sealed up in a (i) bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. (i) You lay them all together and do not allow any of my sins to go unpunished.
Job 14:16-22 turns to the contrast of Job's present misery and hopeless end. Now God watches Job ( Job 14:16 ). God writes down his sins, and seals up the indictments in a bag ( Job 14:17 ). The...
transgression. Hebrew. pasha'. App-44. iniquity. Hebrew. 'avah. App-44.
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. My transgression is sealed up in a bag - An allusion to the custom of collecting evidence of state transgressions, sealing...
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. Sealed up - ( Job 9:7 ). Is shut up in eternal oblivion - i:e., God thenceforth will think no more of my former sins....
Job's Third Speech (concluded) 1-6. Job pleads for God's forbearance on the grounds of man's shortness of life and sinful nature. 1, 2. The well-known Sentence in the Burial Service.
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...
Shall Man Live Again? Job 14:1-22 Continuing his appeal, Job looks from his own case to the condition of mankind generally, Job 14:1-6 . All men are frail and full of trouble, Job 14:12 ; w...
Taking a more general outlook, Job declared that man's life is ever transitory, and full of trouble. This should be a reason why God should pity him, and let him work out the brief period of its dura...
(16) В¶ For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? (17) My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. (18) And surely the mountain falling cometh to...
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 Ch...
My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. Ver. 17. My transgression is sealed up in a bag ] As the writings or informations of a process which is ready to be sent...
For now Or rather, But now , for this seems to be added by way of opposition, as if he had said, I believe thou wilt pity, help, and deliver me, and even wonderfully change my person, state, and p...
MAN'S DECAY AND DEATH (vv.1-12) What Job had said in chapter 3:28 he expands upon in these verses, giving a vivid description of the evanescent character of man's life on earth. This is generall...
Complainings of Job. B. C. 1520. 16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not wat...
Sealed up in a bag; as writings or other choice things, that they may be safely kept, and all of them brought forth upon occasion, and not one of them forgotten or lost. Compare Deuteronomy 32:44...
CONTINUATION OF JOB’S PLEADING WITH GOD I. Pleads the common infirmity of human nature ( Job 14:1-4 ). Man, from the very nature of his birth, frail and mortal, suffering and sinful. “Born of a...
Job 14:4 . Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Then seeing we are all stained with original and actual sin, why should Zophar, without the least proof, almost say that Job's afflictions...
My transgression is sealed up in a bag. Memory The figure here employed to denote the certainty of a future investigation into all the secret transactions of a man’s life is drawn from the pecu...
EXPOSITION Job 14:1-18 This chapter, in which Job concludes the fourth of his addresses, is characterized by a tone of mild and gentle expostulation, which contrasts with the comparative ve...
A Prayer to be Delivered from his Affliction
Deuteronomy 32:34 ; Hosea 13:12 ; Job 21:19
Sealed — As writings or other choice things, that they may all be brought forth upon occasion, and not one of them forgotten. Thou keepest all my sins in thy memory. But herein Job speaks rashly.