Job 31:4
Behold, he truly seeth my ways, and numbereth all my steps;
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
In Context
3Is not calamity [ready] for the unjust? and misfortune for the wrong-doers?
5[And knoweth] whether I have walked with vain desires, or if my foot hath hastened after deceit.
Cross References
Genesis 16:13And she called the name of the Lord that spoke unto her, Thou art an all-seeing God; for she said, Have I not also seen here a vision after he appeared to me?
Job 14:16Yet now thou numberest my steps: and thou waitest not with [the punishment of] my sin.
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].
Proverbs 5:21For before the eyes of the Lord are the ways of man, and all his tracks doth he weigh in the balance.
Jeremiah 16:17For my eyes are directed upon all their ways, they are not hidden from my face, nor is their iniquity 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 →