Job 31:4

God certainly sees [RHQ] everything that I do, so why is he causing me to suffer? It is as though he counts every step that I take.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

In Context

3Previously I thought that surely [RHQ] it was unrighteous people who would experience calamities, and that it was those who do what is wrong who would experience disasters.

5“I solemnly declare that I have never acted wickedly and have never tried to deceive people.

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Cross References

Genesis 16:13Then Hagar realized that the angel was really Yahweh, so she said to herself, “◄It is difficult to believe that I have really seen the back of Yahweh, the one who sees me!/Have I really seen the back of Yahweh, the one who sees me?►” [RHQ] So she called him ‘Yahweh, the one who sees me’.

Job 14:16You would take care of [MET] me, instead of watching me to see if I would sin.

Job 34:21“He sees [MTY] everything that people do; when we walk, he watches every step that we take.

Psalms 139:1Yahweh, you have examined me, and you know everything about me.

Proverbs 5:21I say that because Yahweh sees clearly everything that we do; he knows where we are going on the roads that we walk on.

Jeremiah 16:17I am watching them carefully. I see every sin that they commit. They will not be able to hide from me [MTY].

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 →

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