Job 14:16
But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
In Context
15Thou would call, and I would answer thee. Thou would have a desire to the work of thy hands.
17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou fasten up my iniquity.
Cross References
Job 10:14If I sin, then thou mark me. And thou will not acquit me from my iniquity.
Job 31:4Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?
Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his goings.
Psalms 139:1O LORD, thou have searched me, and known.
Jeremiah 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in work, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings,
Matthew Henry on Job 14:8-16
Death Anticipated. ( b. c. 1520.) 7 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 12 So man lieth down, and… Read the whole commentary →