🌪️WEB · Job 14:17

What does Job 14:17 mean?

"My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity."

— Job 14:17 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

14

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

15

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

16

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

17

My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

18

“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

19

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

20

You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

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