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Job Laments the Finality of Death

Job 14:17

In 11 translations

BSB
My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
KJV
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
WEB
My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
ASV
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.
LSV
My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and You sew up my iniquity.
YLT
Sealed up in a bag [is] my transgression, And Thou sewest up mine iniquity.
DBY
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou heapest up mine iniquity.
DRC
Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.
GNV
Mine iniquitie is sealed vp, as in a bagge, and thou addest vnto my wickednesse.
JPS
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and Thou heapest up mine iniquity.
LXXE
And thou hast sealed up my transgressions in a bag, and marked if I have been guilty of any transgression unawares.

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Original-language editions

WLC
חָתֻ֣ם בִּצְר֣וֹר פִּשְׁעִ֑י וַ֝תִּטְפֹּ֗ל עַל־עֲוֺנִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Ἐσφράγισας δέ μου τὰς ἀνομίας ἐν βαλαντίῳ, ἐπεσημῄνω δὲ εἴτι ἄκων παρέβην.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 32:34“Have I not stored up these things, sealed up within My vaults?
  • Hosea 13:12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
  • 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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