16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
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That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. …
For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
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…
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