Job 14:16
Yet now thou numberest my steps: and thou waitest not with [the punishment of] my sin.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
In Context
15Do thou call, and I will truly answer thee: have a desire for the work of thy hands.
17Sealed up in a bag is my transgression, and thou yet addest to my iniquity.
Cross References
Job 10:14If I have sinned, then dost thou watch me, and from my iniquity thou wilt not declare me guiltless.
Job 31:4Behold, he truly seeth my ways, and numbereth all my steps;
Job 34:21For big eyes are upon the ways of man, and all his steps doth he see.
Psalms 139:1“To the chief musician, by David, a psalm.” O Lord! thou hast searched me through, and thou knowest [me].
Jeremiah 32:19Great in counsel, and mighty in execution: [thou] whose eyes are open over all the ways of the sons of man, to give unto 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 →