Job 14:16
14 If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
15 Thou shalt call, and I will answer thee: thou wilt have a desire to the work of thine hands.
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his 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 thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Read in contextJob 31:4
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Read in contextPsalms 139:1–4
O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Read in contextJob 34:21
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
Read in contextProverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Read in contextJeremiah 32:19
Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
Read in contextJob 33:11
He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Read in contextJob 13:27
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
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