God’s Word Translation
Job 14:16
16Though now you count my steps, you will not keep ⌞a record of⌟ my sins.
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
14“If a person dies, will he go on living? I will wait for my relief to come as long as my hard labor continues. 15You will call, and I will answer you. You will long for the person your hands have made. Though now you count my steps, you will not keep ⌞a record of⌟ my sins. 17My disobedience will be closed up in a bag, and you will cover over my sins. 18As surely as a mountain falls and rocks are dislodged,
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כִּֽי־עַ֭תָּה צְעָדַ֣י תִּסְפּ֑וֹר לֹֽא־תִ֝שְׁמ֗וֹר עַל־חַטָּאתִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 14:16
- Job 10:6Is that why you look for guilt in me and search for sin in me?
- Job 13:27You put my feet in shackles. You follow my trail by engraving marks on the soles of my feet.
- Job 31:4Doesn’t he see my ways and count all my steps?
- Job 33:11He puts my feet in the stocks and watches all my paths.’
- Job 34:21God’s eyes are on a person’s ways. He sees all his steps.
- Psalms 56:6They attack, and then they hide. They watch my every step as they wait to take my life.
- Psalms 139:1O Lord, you have examined me, and you know me.
- Proverbs 5:21Each person’s ways are clearly seen by the Lord, and he surveys all his actions.
- Jeremiah 32:19You make wise plans and do mighty things. You see everything the descendants of Adam do. You reward them for the way they live and for what they do.
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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