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Job Prepares His Case

Job 13:27

In 11 translations

BSB
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
KJV
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.lookest…: Heb. observestheels: Heb. roots
WEB
You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
ASV
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:
LSV
And you put my feet in the stocks, || And observe all my paths—You set a print on the roots of my feet,
YLT
And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
DBY
And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; —
DRC
Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:
GNV
Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.
JPS
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; Thou drawest Thee a line about the soles of my feet;
LXXE
And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated to my heels.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְתָ֘שֵׂ֤ם בַּסַּ֨ד ׀ רַגְלַ֗י וְתִשְׁמ֥וֹר כָּל־אָרְחוֹתָ֑י עַל־שָׁרְשֵׁ֥י רַ֝גְלַ֗י תִּתְחַקֶּֽה׃
LXX-Br
Ἔθου δέ μου τὸν πόδα ἐν κωλύματι, ἐφύλαξας δέ μου πάντα τὰ ἔργα, εἰς δὲ ῥίζας τῶν ποδῶν μου ἀφίκου.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 33:11He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
  • Proverbs 7:22He follows her on impulse, like an ox going to the slaughter, like a deer bounding into a trap,
  • Job 10:6that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
  • Acts 16:24On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
  • Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
  • Job 2:7So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.
  • Job 16:9His anger has torn me and opposed me; He gnashes His teeth at me. My adversary pierces me with His eyes.
  • 2 Chronicles 16:10–12Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people. Now the rest of the acts of Asa, from beginning to end, are…

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