Job 31:4
Does He not see my ways, || And number all my steps?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
In Context
3Is not calamity to the perverse? And strangeness to workers of iniquity?
5If I have walked with vanity, || And my foot hurries to deceit,
Cross References
Genesis 16:13And she calls the Name of YHWH who is speaking to her, “You [are], O God, my beholder”; for she said, “Even here have I looked behind my beholder?”
Job 14:16But now, You number my steps, || You do not watch over my sin.
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.
Proverbs 5:21For the ways of each are before the eyes of YHWH, || And He is pondering all his paths.
Jeremiah 16:17For My eyes [are] on all their ways, || They have not been hidden from My face, || Nor has their iniquity been concealed from before 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 →