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Job 14:17

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My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

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Verse 17. Cured. Hebrew “sewed up.” This method and sealing was in use to keep things of value, before locks were invented. Calmet.—Septuagint “thou hast noted if I had transgressed unwillingly, ακων.” Yet God will not make us accountable for what we cannot help.

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