Job 14:16
Good News Translation
Then you will watch every step I take, but you will not keep track of my sins.

New Revised Standard Version
For then you would not number my steps, you would not keep watch over my sin;

Contemporary English Version
You would take care of me, but not count my sins--

New American Bible
Surely then you would count my steps, and not keep watch for sin in me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

thou numberest

Job 10:6,14 That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? . . .

Job 13:27 Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

Job 31:4 Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?

Job 33:11 He hath put my feet in the stocks, he hath observed all my paths.

Job 34:21 For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.

Psalm 56:6 They will dwell and hide themselves: they will watch my heel. As they have waited for my soul,

Psalm 139:1-4 Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me: . . .

Proverbs 5:21 His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

Jeremiah 32:19 Great in counsel, and incomprehensible in thought: whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of Adam, to render unto every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
15Thou shalt call me, and I will answer thee: to the work of thy hands thou shalt reach out thy right hand. 16Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.17Thou hast sealed up my offences as it were in a bag, but hast cured my iniquity.…
Cross References
Job 10:6
That thou shouldst inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

Job 31:4
Doth not he consider my ways, and number all my steps?

Job 34:21
For his eyes are upon the ways of men, and he considereth all their steps.

Psalm 139:1
Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:

Psalm 139:3
Thou hast understood my thoughts afar off: my path and my line thou hast searched out.

Proverbs 5:21
His own iniquities catch the wicked, and he is fast bound with the ropes of his own sins.

Job 14:15
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