Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
Parallel translations
- WEB You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
- BSB You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
- NKJV You put my feet in the stocks, And watch closely all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
- NASB “You put my feet in the stocks And watch all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet,
- NLT You put my feet in stocks. You examine all my paths. You trace all my footprints.
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Quick answer
Job feels confined and watched by God like a prisoner in stocks. He senses his every move is restricted and tracked.
Overview
Job pictures God putting his feet in the stocks, marking all his paths, and setting limits to his steps. He feels imprisoned and minutely scrutinized. This sense of being hemmed in expresses the oppression he feels under God's hand, though the same watchful God is, in truth, ever attentive for His people's good.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Job 33:11He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
- Job 16:9He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.
- Prov 7:22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
- Job 2:7So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
- Acts 16:24Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
- Job 14:16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
- Job 10:6That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
- 2 Chr 16:10–12Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.
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