Job 14:16
Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
In Context
15You will call me and I will answer you; to the work of your hands, you will extend your right hand.
17You have sealed up my offenses, as if in a purse, but you have cured my iniquity.
Cross References
Job 10:14If I have sinned, and you have spared me for an hour, why do you not endure me to be clean from my iniquity?
Job 31:4Does he not examine my ways and number all my steps?
Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he examines all of their steps.
Psalms 139:1Unto the end. A Psalm of David.
Jeremiah 32:19You are great in counsel and incomprehensible in thought. Your eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of Adam, so that you may repay each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his intentions.
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 →