Job 14:17

English Standard Version 2016

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

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“‘Is not this laid up in store with me, sealed up in my treasuries?

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is kept in store.

You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.

For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter;

“But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;

You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.

Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.

I signed the deed, sealed it, got witnesses, and weighed the money on scales.

Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.

yet you will plunge me into a pit, and my own clothes will abhor me.