Job 14:16

What does Job 14:16 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 14:16 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

But now, my steps Thou numberest, Thou dost not watch over my sin.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.15Thou wouldest call, and I would answer thee: Thou wouldest have a desire to the work of thy hands.

v.16This passage

v.17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, And thou fastenest up mine iniquity.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 13:27

    Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:

  • Job 34:21

    For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.

  • Job 31:4

    Doth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?

  • Jeremiah 32:19

    great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

  • Proverbs 5:21

    For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah; And he maketh level all his paths.

  • Psalms 139:1

    O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme.

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