27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
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He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-28)Here, I. Job enquires after his sins, and begs to have them discovered to him. He looks up to God, and asks him what was the number of them ( How many are my iniquities ?) and what were the particulars of them: Make me to know my transgressions , Job 13:23. His friends were ready enough to tell him how numerous and how heinous they were, Job 22:5. “But, Lord,” says he, “let me know them from thee;…
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