You put my feet in stocks. You examine all my paths. You trace all my footprints.
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,
- KJV 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.
- 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,
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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 puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’
- Job 16:9He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
- Prov 7:22He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.
- Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of Yahweh, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
- Acts 16:24who, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.
- Job 14:16But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
- Job 10:6that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
- 2 Chr 16:10–12Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time.
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