He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
Parallel translations
- WEB He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.’
- KJV He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
- NKJV He puts my feet in the stocks, He watches all my paths.’
- NASB ‘He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches all my paths.’
- NLT He puts my feet in the stocks and watches my every move.’
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Quick answer
God spoke with Moses 'face to face, as a man speaks to his friend,' while Joshua remained at the Tent. It describes the extraordinary intimacy of Moses' fellowship with God.
Overview
The phrase 'face to face' depicts the directness and friendship of God's communication with Moses, even though, as verse 20 clarifies, Moses did not see God's unveiled face. This unique relationship sets Moses apart as prophet and mediator. Yet Hebrews shows Christ as the greater Moses, who brings believers into even fuller fellowship with God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
- Job 31:4Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
- Dan 4:35All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”
- Acts 16:24On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
- Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
- Ps 105:18They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
- Jer 20:2he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
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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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