He puts my feet in the stocks, He watches 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.
- BSB He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over 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 also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
- Job 31:4Doesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?
- Dan 4:35All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
- 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?
- Ps 105:18They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
- Jer 20:2Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.
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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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