Job 14:16
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 14 connects to 10 cross-references. Job meditates on the brevity and inevitability of human mortality, comparing human life to a flower cut down. He muses wistfully that if a tree is cut down it sprouts again, but a man lies down and does not rise. …
Other Translations
But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?
But now, my steps Thou numberest, Thou dost not watch over my sin.
For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.
Cross References
That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon …
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.