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 Job 37:7 Hosea 13:12. Thou sewest up mine iniquity, i.e. thou keepest all my sins in thy memory, and fastenest the guilt of them upon my conscience. Or, thou addest to my sin, one sin to another; the follies of my youth, Job 13:26, to those of my riper years. Or, thou addest to my punishment, i.e. thou punishest me more than mine iniquities deserve, all things considered. For this sinful thought seems sometimes to have risen in Job's mind, as may be gathered from divers parts of this book; which therefore Zophar decries and disproves, Job 11:6.
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Job 14:17
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.