Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
Parallel translations
- WEB Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?
- KJV Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
- NKJV Does He not see my ways, And count all my steps?
- NASB “Does He not see my ways, And count all my steps?
- NLT Doesn’t he see everything I do and every step I take?
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Quick answer
Job acknowledges that God sees all his ways and counts every step. This awareness of God's all-seeing eye motivates his integrity.
Overview
Job confesses that the Lord observes his entire course of life and numbers each of his steps, so nothing is hidden from God. This conviction of being fully known fuels his commitment to live uprightly even in secret. The same truth comforts and challenges believers today, for the God who sees all is also the God who, in Christ, knows us fully and yet loves and redeems us.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Job 34:21For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
- Prov 5:21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
- 2 Chr 16:9For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in this matter. From now on, therefore, you will be at war.”
- Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
- Prov 15:3The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
- Jer 32:19the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
- Jer 16:17For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
- Ps 139:1–3For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
- Heb 4:13Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
- Ps 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
- Gen 16:13So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
- John 1:48“How do You know me?” Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, “Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree.”
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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