Job 14:17
Good News Translation
You will forgive them and put them away; you will wipe out all the wrongs I have done.

New Revised Standard Version
my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity.

Contemporary English Version
you would put them in a bag, tie it tight, and toss them away.

New American Bible
My misdeeds would be sealed up in a pouch, and you would cover over my guilt.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.

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Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.

sealed up

Job 21:19 God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.

Deuteronomy 32:34 Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?

Hosea 13:12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
16Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins. 17Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.18A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:32
Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.

Deuteronomy 32:34
Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?

Job 14:18
A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.

Job 33:9
I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.

Jeremiah 2:22
Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.

Jeremiah 32:10
And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took witnesses: and I weighed him the money in the balances.

Hosea 13:12
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin is hidden.

Job 14:16
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