114 SHALOM E. HOLTZ conversely, Mic 7,19 describes how God, in an act of forgiveness, will not keep Israel’s sins but will instead “cast their sin into the sea” 29. Thus, the verses in Hosea and Job contain entailments of the broader metaphoric net- work according to which unforgiven sins are “kept” or “remembered”, and forgiven sins are not 30. Hos 13,12 and Job 14,17 describe the precise mech- anism ― binding in a bundle ― by which God holds on to sins to keep them in memory. Reading Hos 13,12 and Job 14,17 together with the evidence preserva- tion procedures in the Eanna sheds new light on the long recognized ana- logue to these verses in Deut 32,34-35. In Deuteronomy, the corrupt behavior of the people’s enemies is “laid up in store” (smk) with God and even “sealed” (Mtx) in God’s treasury, exactly like Job’s sin 31. Strictly speaking, however, the verses do not speak of “sin” as being stored. What is stored, rather, is the poisonous wine of Deut 32,32.33, which, according to this in- terpretation, stands for the nations’ offenses 32. Nevertheless, the passage in Deuteronomy is important because it describes the “sealing” of the preserved object and its use at the time of judgment. One imagines, with the poet, that the wine will be brought out of storage and presented to the nations, in much the same way that Tamar presents Judah with the evidence that condemns him as the father of her unborn children 33. In addition to the long noted parallel in Deut 32, another, previously unrecognized biblical parallel to Hos 13,12 and Job 14,17 emerges when the verses are read in light of the Neo-Babylonian texts that describe ev- 29 God’s casting away of sin is almost exactly the opposite of God’s keeping sin in Job 14,17. Thus, Mic 7,19 hardly seems to support the interpretation of the binding of sin in Job 14,17 as an image of forgiveness, contra L. ALONSO SCHÖKEL – J.L. SICRE DÍAZ, Job. Comentario teológico y literario (Madrid 1983) 236 and F. MIES, L’espérance de Job (BETL 193; Leuven 2006) 200. 30 For the terminology of metaphor and entailment, see G. LAKOFF – M. JOHNSON, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago, IL 2003) 9. 31 S.R. DRIVER, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Deuteronomy (ICC 5; Edinburgh 1895) 373; DRIVER – GRAY, Job, I, 130; FOHRER, Hiob, 259; LÉVÊQUE, Job et son Dieu, 460; CLINES, Job, 334; G.I. DAVIES, Hosea (NCBC; Grand Rapids, MI 1992) 293. 32 A different reading takes the vineyards and the poisonous wine as God’s own, stored for the day of vengeance when the nations will drink it. See J.H. TIGAY, Deuteronomy. The Traditional Hebrew Text with the New JPS Trans- lation and Commentary (Philadelphia, PA 1996) 311, with references to other literature on 404-405. Note that according to this interpretation, storing the wine under seal has nothing to do with storing the nations’ sins as evidence. Thus, Deut 32,32.35 are irrelevant to Hos 13,12 and Job 14,17. 33 See Gen 38,25-26. I am grateful to the anonymous referee from Biblica who suggested the similarity to this passage.