Job 14:17

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my transgression would be sealed up in a bag, and thou wouldest 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 sons.’ Let him recompense it to themselves, 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 clean, without transgression; I am pure, 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, says the Lord God.

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

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

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