Job 14:16

Modern

For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

Traditional

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

Literal

For now, You count my steps; You do not watch over my sin.

Latin

Tu quidem gressus meos dinumerasti: sed parce peccatis meis.

Hebrew

English

For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.

count my steps: Here, Job refers to God's protective care rather than his surveillance (10:12; 13:27; 14:3).

Theme notes and profiles

Job 10:6
…that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
Job 31:4
Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
Psalm 139:1–4
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
Job 34:21
For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
Proverbs 5:21
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
Job 33:11
He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
Jeremiah 32:19
…the One great in counsel and mighty in deed, whose eyes are on all the ways of the sons of men, to reward each one according to his ways and according to the fruit of his deeds.
Psalm 56:6
They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
Job 13:27
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
Job 10:14
If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.