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Job 14:17

New Century Version

My wrongs will be closed up in a bag, and you will cover up my sin.

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“A mountain washes away and crumbles; and a rock can be moved from its place.

It is said, ‘God saves up a person’s punishment for his children.’ But God should punish the wicked themselves so they will know it.

You said, ‘I am pure and without sin; I am innocent and free from guilt.

Even if I were right, my own mouth would say I was wrong; if I were innocent, my mouth would say I was guilty.

but you would push me into a dirty pit, and even my clothes would hate me.

Although you wash yourself with cleanser and use much soap, I can still see the stain of your guilt,” says the Lord God.

I signed the record and sealed it and had some people witness it. I also weighed out the silver on the scales.

The sins of Israel are on record, stored away, waiting for punishment.

Their vine comes from Sodom, and their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are full of poison; their bunches of grapes are bitter.

“I have been saving this, and I have it locked in my storehouses.