Job 33:11
9 ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
10 Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
12 Behold, you are not right in this matter. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
13 Why do you complain to Him that He answers nothing a man asks?
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
- KJV
- He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
- WEB
- He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’
- ASV
- He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.
- DARBY
- He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
- BLB
- He puts my feet into the shackles; He watches all my paths.’
- ÅB
- han setter mine føtter i stokken og vokter på alle mine veier.
- OTB
- Han setter mine føtter i lenker;
Han vokter alle mine stier.’ - B1930
- han setter mine føtter i stokken og vokter på alle mine veier.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 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.
Read in contextJob 31:4
Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
Read in contextDaniel 4:35
All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
Read in contextPsalms 105:18
They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
Read in contextJeremiah 20:2
he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
Read in contextActs 16:24
On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Read in contextJob 14:16
For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
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