Does He not see my ways, And count all my steps?
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?
- BSB Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
- 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 34:21“For his eyes are on the ways of a man. He sees all his goings.
- Prov 5:21For the ways of man are before Yahweh’s eyes. He examines all his paths.
- 2 Chr 16:9For Yahweh’s eyes run back and forth throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. You have done foolishly in this; for from now on you will have wars.”
- Job 14:16But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
- Prov 15:3Yahweh’s eyes are everywhere, keeping watch on the evil and the good.
- Jer 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the sons of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
- Jer 16:17For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from my face, neither is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.
- Ps 139:1–3For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
- Heb 4:13There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.
- Ps 44:21won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
- Gen 16:13She called the name of Yahweh who spoke to her, “You are a God who sees,” for she said, “Have I even stayed alive after seeing him?”
- John 1:48Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.”
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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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