Job 14:16
But now you number my steps.Do you not watch over my sin?
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
In Context
15You would call, and I would answer you.You would have a desire to the work of your hands.
17My disobedience is sealed up in a bag.You fasten up my iniquity.
Cross References
Job 10:14if I sin, then you mark me.You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
Job 31:4Doesn't he see my ways,and number all my steps?
Job 34:21"For his eyes are on the ways of a man.He sees all his goings.
Psalms 139:1For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.Lord, you have searched me,and you know me.
Jeremiah 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone 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 →