Christian Standard Bible
Job 14:16
16For then you would count my steps but would not take note of my sin.
Job 14:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
- New International Version (NIV)Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
- New King James Version (NKJV)For now You number my steps, But do not watch over my sin.
Context of Job 14:16
14When a person dies, will he come back to life? If so, I would wait all the days of my struggle until my relief comes. 15You would call, and I would answer you. You would long for the work of your hands. For then you would count my steps but would not take note of my sin. 17My rebellion would be sealed up in a bag, and you would cover over my iniquity. 18But as a mountain collapses and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
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כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה צְעָדַ֣י תִּסְפּ֑וֹר לֹֽא־תִ֝שְׁמ֗וֹר עַל־חַטָּאתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 14:16
- Job 10:6that you look for my iniquity and search for my sin,
- Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths, setting a limit for the soles of my feet.
- Job 31:4Does he not see my ways and number all my steps?
- Job 33:11He puts my feet in the stocks; he stands watch over all my paths.”
- Job 34:21For his eyes watch over a man’s ways, and he observes all his steps.
- Psalms 56:6They stir up strife, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
- Psalms 139:1Lord, you have searched me and known me.
- Proverbs 5:21For a man’s ways are before the Lord’s eyes, and he considers all his paths.
- Jeremiah 32:19the one great in counsel and powerful in action. Your eyes are on all the ways of the children of men in order to reward each person according to his ways and as the result of his actions.
Commentaries on Job 14:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16For now thou numberest my steps - עתה כי ki attah, Although thou, etc. Though thou, by thy conduct towards me, seemest bent on my utter destruction, yet thou delightest in mercy, and I shall be saved.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16For now thou numberest my steps - Thou dost make strict inquiry into all my conduct, that thou mayest mark my errors, and hold me bound to punishment. The sense is, that God treated him now with severity; and he besought him to have pity on him, and bring him to trial, and give him an opportunity to vindicate himself.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-22Verses 16-22 Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who contend with him. God may send disease and pain, we may lose all comfort in those near and dear to us, every hope of earthly happiness may be destroyed, but God will receive the believer into realms of eternal happiness. But what a change awaits the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 16count my steps: Here, Job refers to God's protective care rather than his surveillance (10:12; 13:27; 14:3).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. Rather, "Yea, thou wilt number my steps, and wilt not (as now) jealously watch over my sin." Thenceforward, instead of severe watching for every sin of Job, God will guard him against every sin. number ... steps--that is, minutely attend to them, that they may not wander [Umbreit] (1Sa 2:9; Psa 37:23).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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