Job 14:16
For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
In Context
15You shall call, and I will answer you: you will have a desire to the work of yours hands.
17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up mine iniquity.
Cross References
Job 10:14If I sin, then you mark me, and you will not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Job 31:4Does not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job 34:21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he sees all his activities.
Psalms 139:1O lord, you have searched me, and known me.
Jeremiah 32:19Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for yours eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one 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 →