Job 14:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁶For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

Job 14:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 10:6
That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Job 31:4
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job 34:21
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
Psalms 139:1-4
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. …
Proverbs 5:21
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

Topics

Depravity of Man Guilt Popular Sins Rebellion Sin

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-22)

Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances. I. He complains of the particular hardships he apprehended himself under from the strictness of God’s justice, Job 14:16, 17. Therefore he longed to go hence to that world where God’s wrath will be past, because now he was under the continual tokens of i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. 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).