Job 14:16

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

In Context

15Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee; thou wouldest have a desire after the work of thy hands.

17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou heapest up mine iniquity.

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Cross References

Job 10:14If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity.

Job 31:4Doth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?

Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his steps.

Psalms 139:1{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].

Jeremiah 32:19great in counsel and mighty in work, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of men, to give every one 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 →

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