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. To cover sins is to completely forgive them (Psalms 32:1; Psalms 85:2). Purses of money in the East are usually sealed.
Sewest up - rather, 'coverest' х Taapal (H2950), the same as Taabal (H2881)]; akin to an Arabic word, 'to colour over;' to forget wholly (Umbreit). Maurer translates, somewhat as the English version, 'Thou sewest upon mine iniquity:' besides the iniquities which thou chargest me with, thou attachest to me others which I never committed [akin to taapar (H8609) and taapal (H2950)]. On the former clause, taken in the sense, sealed by an irrevocable decree as doomed to punishment, cf. Deuteronomy 32:34, "Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?" Hosea 13:12, "The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up." This view seems better than Umbreit's.