Job 14:17

The Scriptures 1998

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and You cover over my crookedness.

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‘Is it not stored up with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?

“The crookedness of Ephrayim is bound up, his sin is hidden.

You say, ‘Eloah stores up one’s wickedness for his children.’ Let Him repay him, so that he knows it.

“Their vine is of the vine of Seḏ

But a falling mountain crumbles away, and a rock is moved from its place,

‘I am clear, without transgression; I am innocent, and I have no crookedness.

“Although you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your crookedness is ingrained before Me,” declares the Master יהוה.

“And I signed the deed and sealed it, took witnesses, and weighed the silver in the scales.

If I am righteous? My mouth would declare me wrong. Am I perfect? It would declare me perverse.

then You would plunge me into a ditch, and my garments shall abhor me.