SEV Biblia, Chapter 14:17
Tienes sellada en manojo mi prevaricación, y enmiendas a mi iniquidad.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Job 14:17
Verse 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 and officers of state to be examined, in order to trial and judgment. Just at this time (July, 1820) charges of state transgressions, sealed up in a GREEN BAG, and presented to the two houses of parliament, for the examination of a secret committee, are making a considerable noise in the land. Some suppose the allusion is to money sealed up in bags; which is common in the East. This includes two ideas: 1. Job's transgressions were all numbered; not one was passed by. 2. They were sealed up; so that none of them could be lost. These bags were indifferently sewed or sealed, the two words in the text.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 16-22 - Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravit again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremit against him. The Lord must prevail against all who contend with him God may send disease and pain, we may lose all comfort in those nea and dear to us, every hope of earthly happiness may be destroyed, but God will receive the believer into realms of eternal happiness. But what a change awaits the prosperous unbeliever! How will he answer when God shall call him to his tribunal? The Lord is yet upon a mercy-seat ready to be gracious. Oh that sinners would be wise, that they woul consider their latter end! While man's flesh is upon him, that is, the body he is so loth to lay down, it shall have pain; and while his sou is within him, that is, the spirit he is so loth to resign, it shal mourn. Dying work is hard work; dying pangs often are sore pangs. It is folly for men to defer repentance to a death-bed, and to have that to do which is the one thing needful, when unfit to do anything __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
חתם 2856 בצרור 6872 פשׁעי 6588 ותטפל 2950 על 5921 עוני׃ 5771
