Job 31:4
Does he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
In Context
3Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?
5If I have gone in false ways, or my foot has been quick in working deceit;
Cross References
Genesis 16:13And to the Lord who was talking with her she gave this name, You are a God who is seen; for she said, Have I not even here in the waste land had a vision of God and am still living?
Job 14:16For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.
Job 34:21For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.
Psalms 139:1To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David. O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.
Proverbs 5:21For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.
Matthew Henry on Job 31:2-9
Job's Vindication of Himself. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid? 2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high? 3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? 4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps? 5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit; 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. 7 If my step hath… Read the whole commentary →