Job 14:16
But now, You number my steps, || You do not watch over my sin.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
In Context
15You call, and I answer You; To the work of Your hands You have desire.
17My transgression [is] sealed up in a bag, and You sew up my iniquity.
Cross References
Job 10:14If I sinned, then You have observed me, || And do not acquit me from my iniquity,
Job 31:4Does He not see my ways, || And number all my steps?
Job 34:21For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, || And He sees all his steps.
Psalms 139:1TO THE OVERSEER. A PSALM OF DAVID. YHWH, You have searched me, and know.
Jeremiah 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in act, in that Your eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of Adam, to give to each 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 →