Job 14:16
Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
In Context
17Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.
Cross References
Job 10:14If I have sinned and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?
Job 31:4Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?
Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.
Psalms 139:1I will praise thee, O lord, with my whole heart: for thou hast heard the words of my mouth. I will sing praise to thee in the sight of his angels:
Jeremiah 32:19Great in counsel and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.
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 →