Job 14:16
14 When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
15 You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
17 My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
18 But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
- KJV
- For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
- WEB
- But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
- ASV
- But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?
- DARBY
- For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
- BLB
- For now, You count my steps; You do not watch over my sin.
- ÅB
- Men nå teller du mine skritt og akter stadig på min synd.
- OTB
- For nå teller Du mine skritt,
Du vokter ikke over min synd. - B1930
- Men nu teller du mine skritt og akter stadig på min synd.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 10:6
that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
Read in contextJob 31:4
Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
Read in contextPsalms 139:1–4
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
Read in contextJob 34:21
For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
Read in contextProverbs 5:21
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
Read in contextJeremiah 32:19
the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Read in contextJob 33:11
He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
Read in contextJob 13:27
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
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