Job - 33:11



11 He puts my feet in the stocks. He marks all my paths.'

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Explanation and meaning of Job 33:11.

Differing Translations

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He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.
He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'
He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.
He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.' .
He has put my feet in fetters; he has kept watch over all my ways."

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

He putteth my feet in the stocks - This also is language which Job had used; see Job 13:27. "He marketh all my paths;" in Job 13:27, "Thou lookest narrowly unto all my paths;" see the notes at that verse.

He putteth my feet in the stocks - See the note on Job 13:27.

He putteth my feet in the stocks,.... This also he had said, Job 13:27; by which he would suggest not only that his afflictions were painful and disgraceful, and from which he could not extricate himself, being close fettered by them; but that they were inflicted on him as punishments, and he was treated as a criminal, as a malefactor, who had been guilty of some notorious breach of the law:
he marketh all my paths; looked narrowly at them, numbered and counted them; this also he had said, Job 13:27; meaning not only his natural and civil paths and steps, but his moral ones, that he could not step the least awry, but presently it was marked and observed, Job 10:14; but though God does take notice of the sins of his people, and chastises them for them, yet he does not mark them in strict justice, for, should he, they could not stand before him, Psalm 130:3.

Marketh - He narrowly prys into all my actions, that he may find matter against me.

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