Job 14:17

“My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, etc.] Denoting either the concealment of it, as in (<281312>Hosea 13:12); not from God; nor in such sense sealed up as sin is by the sacrifice and satisfaction of Christ, who has thereby removed it out of the sight of divine justice; so that when it is sought for it shall not be found, nor any more seen, which is the sense of the phrase in (<270924>Daniel 9:24); where the words, “to make an end of sin”, may be rendered, to “seal [them] up”; but this Job would not have complained of; he means it was hid as in a bag from himself, or he knew not what it was; the transgression was sealed up from him, he was entirely ignorant of and unacquainted with what…”

“sealed up-- (Job 9:7). Is shut up in eternal oblivion, that is, God thenceforth will think no more of my former sins. To cover sins is to completely forgive them (Psa 32:1; Psa 85:2). Purses of money in the East are usually sealed. sewest up--rather, "coverest"; akin to an Arabic word, "to color over," to forget wholly.”

“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 ancients to use a seal where we use a lock. Money was counted and put into a bag, and a seal was attached to it. Hence, a seal might be put to a bag, as a sort of certificate of the amount, and to save the necessity of counting it again. In a bag - - בצרור bı̂tserôr. So Jerome, “in sacculo.” So the Septuagint, ἐν βαλαντίῳ en balantiō. The word צרור tserôr means usually a “bundle” 1 Samuel 25:29; Song of Solomon 1:13, or anything bound up (compare Job 26:8; Hosea 13:12; Exodus 12:34; Proverbs…”

“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. Job 14:18”

“14:17 If sins are sealed in a pouch they do not await a time of reckoning (Deut 32:34-35; Hos 13:12)—they are hidden forever. Job was requesting acquittal.”

“sealed up: Job 21:19; Deu 32:34; Hos 13:12 Job 14:18”

“17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And Thou hast devised additions to my iniquity. 18 But a falling mountain moveth indeed, And a rock falleth from its place. 19 Water holloweth out stone, Its overflowings carry away the dust of the earth, And the hope of man - Thou destroyest. The meaning of Job 14:17 is, not that the judgment which pronounces him guilty lies in the sealed-up bag of the judge, so that it requires only to be handed over for execution (Hirz., Ew., Renan), for although פּשׁע (though not exactly the punishment of sin, which it does not signify even in Dan 9:24) can denote wickedness, as proved and recorded, and therefore metonomically the penal sentence, the figure is,…”