Job 13:27

And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

26For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;

28Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

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Cross References

Job 2:7And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

Job 10:6That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

Job 16:9I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;

Proverbs 7:22The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

Matthew Henry on Job 13:24-28

23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble? 26 For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. 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. 28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a… Read the whole commentary →

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