Job 31:4
Does he not examine my ways and number all my steps?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
In Context
3Is not destruction held for the wicked and repudiation kept for those who work injustice?
5If I have walked in vanity, or if my foot has hurried towards deceitfulness,
Cross References
Genesis 16:13Then she called upon the name of the Lord who had spoken to her: “You are the God who has seen me.” For she said, “Certainly, here I have seen the back of the one who sees me.”
Job 14:16Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins.
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.
Proverbs 5:21The Lord beholds the ways of man, and he considers all his steps.
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are upon all their ways. They have not been hidden from my face, and their iniquity has not been concealed 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 →