Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 14:17
Sealed — As writings or other choice things, that they may all be brought forth upon occasion, and not one of them forgotten. Thou keepest all my sins in thy memory. But herein Job speaks rashly.
Sealed — As writings or other choice things, that they may all be brought forth upon occasion, and not one of them forgotten. Thou keepest all my sins in thy memory. But herein Job speaks rashly.
Verse Job 14:17. _MY TRANSGRESSION IS SEALED UP IN A BAG_] An allusion to the custom of collecting evidence of state transgressions, _sealing_ _them up in a bag_, and presenting them to the judges an...
MY TRANSGRESSION IS SEALED UP - The verb rendered sealed up (חתם _châtham_) means to seal, to close, to shut up; see the notes at Isaiah 8:16; compare the notes at Job 9:7. It was common with the anc...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
JOB 14:16 turns to the contrast of Job's present misery and hopeless end. Now God watches Job (Job 14:16). God writes down his sins, and seals up the indictments in a bag (Job 14:17). The mountains pe...
TRANSGRESSION. Hebrew. _pasha'._ App-44. INIQUITY. Hebrew. _'avah._ App-44....
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....
This prayer for a second life is supported by a picture of the severity with which God deals with man in this life and the mournful consequences of it....
Job 13:22 to Job 14:22. Job pleads his cause before God Having ordered his cause and challenged his friends to observe how he will plead, Job now enters, with the boldness and proud bearing of one as...
9. Job longs for an afterlife. (Job 14:13-17) TEXT 14:13-17 13 OH THAT THOU WOULDEST HIDE ME IN SHEOL, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a s...
_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 cove...
14:17 up (a-12) Or 'sewest up,' or 'addest to.'...
JOB'S THIRD SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-6. Job pleads for God's forbearance on the grounds of man's shortness of life and sinful nature. 1, 2. The well-known Sentence in the Burial Service....
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 14 JOB CONTINUES HIS PRAYER...
Job thought that God caused his troubles. So, Job thought that God was angry. In fact, God was not angry with Job. God was pleased with Job. And God did not cause Job’s troubles. The devil caused Job’...
חָתֻ֣ם בִּ צְרֹ֣ור פִּשְׁעִ֑י וַ֝ תִּטְפֹּ֗ל...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
SHALL MAN LIVE AGAIN? Job 14:1 Continuing his appeal, Job looks from his own case to _the condition of mankind generally,_ Job 14:1. All men are frail and full of trouble, Job 14:12; why should God b...
Taking a more general outlook, Job declared that man's life is ever transitory, and full of trouble. This should be a reason why God should pity him, and let him work out the brief period of its durat...
My transgression [is] sealed up in a (i) bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. (i) You lay them all together and do not allow any of my sins to go unpunished....
_Cured. Hebrew, "sewed up." This method and sealing was in use to keep things of value, before locks were invented. (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "thou hast noted if I had transgressed unwillingly, Greek:...
(16) В¶ For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? (17) My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. (18) And surely the mountain falling cometh to...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
MY TRANSGRESSION [IS] SEALED UP IN A BAG,.... Denoting either the concealment of it, as in Hosea 13:12; not from God; nor in such sense sealed up as sin is by the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ,...
My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. Ver. 17. _My transgression is sealed up in a bag_] As the writings or informations of a process which is ready to be senten...
_For now_ Or rather, _But now_, for this seems to be added by way of opposition, as if he had said, I believe thou wilt pity, help, and deliver me, and even wonderfully change my person, state, and pl...
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, his guilt, or wickedness, was kept in remembrance, AND THOU SEWEST UP MINE INIQUITY, literally, "Thou hast stitched on to my transgressions," that is, made Job'...
A PRAYER TO BE DELIVERED FROM HIS AFFLICTION...
MAN'S DECAY AND DEATH (vv.1-12) What Job had said in chapter 3:28 he expands upon in these verses, giving a vivid description of the evanescent character of man's life on earth. This is generally tr...
16-22 Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who co...
SEALED UP IN A BAG; as writings or other choice things, that they may be safely kept, and all of them brought forth upon occasion, and not one of them forgotten or lost. Compare DEUTERONOMY 32:44 JOB...
Job 14:17 transgression H6588 up H2856 (H8803) bag H6872 cover H2950 (H8799) iniquity H5771 sealed up -...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to his friends continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: God's providence has the ordering of the period of our lives; our times are in His hand. The consideration of our i...
Job 14:4. _Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?_ Then seeing we are all stained with original and actual sin, why should Zophar, without the least proof, almost say that Job's afflictions we...
_My transgression is sealed up in a bag._ MEMORY The figure here employed to denote the certainty of a future investigation into all the secret transactions of a man’s life is drawn from the peculiar...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 14:15 Job longs for a renewal in which God would secure his path and forgive his sin (vv. Job 14:15). But he concludes that just as the elements wash away rock and soil, so God will we...
_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S PLEADING WITH GOD_ I. Pleads the common infirmity of human nature (Job 14:1). Man, from the very nature of his birth, frail and mortal, suffering and sinful. “Born of a woman.”...
EXPOSITION JOB 14:1 This chapter, in which Job concludes the fourth of his addresses, is characterized by a tone of mild and gentle expostulation, which contrasts with the comparative vehemence and p...
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, he's full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow [or the shadow on the sundial], and continues not (Job 14:1-2...
Deuteronomy 32:34; Hosea 13:12; Job 21:19...