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Job 14:17

NETBible	My offenses would be sealed up¹ in a bag;² you would cover over³ my sin.
NIV © biblegateway Job 14:17	My offences will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.
NASB © biblegateway Job 14:17	"My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You wrap up my iniquity.
NLT © biblegateway Job 14:17	My sins would be sealed in a pouch, and you would cover over my iniquity.
MSG © biblegateway Job 14:17	My sins will be stuffed in a sack and thrown into the sea--sunk in deep ocean.
BBE © SABDAweb Job 14:17	My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.
NRSV © bibleoremus Job 14:17	my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.
NKJV © biblegateway Job 14:17	My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And You cover my iniquity.
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KJV	My transgression <06588> [is] sealed up <02856> (8803) in a bag <06872>_, and thou sewest up <02950> (8799) mine iniquity <05771>_.
NASB © biblegateway Job 14:17	"My transgression <06588> is sealed <02856> up in a bag <06872> , And You wrap <02950> up my iniquity <05771> .
LXXM	esfragisav <4972> V-AAI-2S de <1161> PRT mou <1473> P-GS tav <3588> T-APF anomiav <458> N-APF en <1722> PREP ballantiw {N-DSN} epeshmhnw {V-AMI-2S} de <1161> PRT ei <1487> CONJ ti <5100> I-ASN akwn <210> A-NSM parebhn <3845> V-AAI-1S
NET [draft] ITL	My offenses <06588> would be sealed up <02856> in a bag <06872> ; you would cover <02950> over <05921> my sin <05771> .
HEBREW	ynwe <05771> le <05921> lpjtw <02950> yesp <06588> rwrub <06872> Mtx (14:17) <02856>

NETBible

My offenses would be sealed up¹ in a bag;² you would cover over³ my sin.

NET Notes

¹tn The passive participle חָתֻם (khatum), from חָתַם (khatam, “seal”), which is used frequently in the Bible, means “sealed up.” The image of sealing sins in a bag is another of the many poetic ways of expressing the removal of sin from the individual (see 1 Sam 25:29). Since the term most frequently describes sealed documents, the idea here may be more that of sealing in a bag the record of Job’s sins (see D. J. A. Clines, Job [WBC], 334).

²tn The idea has been presented that the background of putting tally stones in a bag is intended (see A. L. Oppenheim, “On an Operational Device in Mesopotamian Bureaucracy,” JNES 18 [1959]: 121-28).

³tn This verb was used in Job 13:4 for “plasterers of lies.” The idea is probably that God coats or paints over the sins so that they are forgotten (see Isa 1:18). A. B. Davidson (Job, 105) suggests that the sins are preserved until full punishment is exacted. But the verse still seems to be continuing the thought of how the sins would be forgotten in the next life.