Job 14:17

My transgression is sealed up in a bag,.... Denoting either the concealment of it, as in Hos 13:12; not from God; nor in such sense sealed up as sin is by the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ, who…

My transgression is sealed up - The verb rendered sealed up (חתם châtham) means to seal, to close, to shut up; see the notes at Isa 8:16; compare the notes at Job 9:7. It was common with the ancients…

Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances.

I. He complains of the particular hardships he…

Figures expressing the carefulness with which God treasures up a man's sins lest any of them should be lost, in order to visit the full tale of them upon him.