Job 13:27
New International Version
You fasten my feet in shackles; you keep close watch on all my paths by putting marks on the soles of my feet.

New Living Translation
You put my feet in stocks. You examine all my paths. You trace all my footprints.

English Standard Version
You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a limit for the soles of my feet.

Berean Standard Bible
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
You put my feet in the stocks, And watch closely all my paths. You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

New American Standard Bible
“You put my feet in the stocks And watch all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet,

NASB 1995
“You put my feet in the stocks And watch all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet,

NASB 1977
“Thou dost put my feet in the stocks, And dost watch all my paths; Thou dost set a limit for the soles of my feet,

Legacy Standard Bible
You put my feet in the stocks And kept watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet,

Amplified Bible
“You also put my feet in the stocks [as punishment] And [critically] observe all my paths; You set a circle and limit around the soles of my feet [which I must not overstep],

Christian Standard Bible
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths, setting a limit for the soles of my feet.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths, setting a limit for the soles of my feet.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you set my feet in the stocks and have set a guard on all my ways, and shall you look upon the footprints of my feet?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; and thou hast watched all my works, and hast penetrated my heels.

Contemporary English Version
You have tied my feet down and keep me surrounded;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

English Revised Version
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou drawest thee a line about the soles of my feet:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You put my feet in shackles. You follow my trail by engraving marks on the soles of my feet.

Good News Translation
You bind chains on my feet; you watch every step I take, and even examine my footprints.

International Standard Version
You've locked my feet in stocks; you watch all my steps; You've limited where I can walk.

JPS Tanakh 1917
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;

Literal Standard Version
And you put my feet in the stocks, | And observe all my paths—You set a print on the roots of my feet,

Majority Standard Bible
You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.

New American Bible
You put my feet in the stocks; you watch all my paths and trace out all my footsteps,

NET Bible
And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.

New Revised Standard Version
You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet.

New Heart English Bible
You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

World English Bible
You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

Young's Literal Translation
And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,

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Context
Job Reproves His Friends
26For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth. 27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet. 28So man wastes away like something rotten, like a moth-eaten garment.…

Cross References
Acts 16:24
On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

Job 33:11
He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.'

Jeremiah 20:2
he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.


Treasury of Scripture

You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet.

puttest

Job 33:11
He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

2 Chronicles 16:10-12
Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time…

Proverbs 7:22
He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

and lookest.

Job 10:6
That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

Job 14:16
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

Job 16:9
He teareth me in his wrath, who hateth me: he gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

settest

Job 2:7
So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

heels.

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Job 13
1. Job reproves his friends for partiality
14. He professes his confidence in God;
19. and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him














(27) Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks.--This is illustrated by the language of the Psalms (Psalm 88:8; Psalm 142:7, &c.). There is a difficulty in these two verses, arising from the pronouns. Some understand the subject to be the fetter: "Thou puttest my feet in the fetter that watcheth over all my paths, and imprinteth itself upon the roots of my feet, and it (the foot) consumeth like a rotten thing, and like a garment that is moth-eaten." Others refer the "he" to Job himself; and others to man, the subject of the following chapter. In the Hebrew future tense the third person feminine and the second person masculine are alike, and the word for fetter, which is only found here and at Job 33:11, where Elihu quotes these words, may possibly be feminine in this place, though it is clear that Elihu understood Job to be speaking of God. Probably by the "he" introduced so abruptly is meant the object of all this watching and persecution.

Verse 27. - Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks (comp. Job 33:11). The punishment is said to be still in use among the Bedouin Arabs. It was well known to the Israelites (Proverbs 7:22; Jeremiah 20:2; Jeremiah 29:26), to the Greeks (Herod., 9:87), and to the Romans (Acts 16:24). And lookest narrowly unto all my paths. Not allowing me to escape thee. Thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet; rather, upon the soles of my feet. The "print" intended is probably a mark which the stocks were in the habit of making (see Professor Sayee, in Sunday at Home December, 1890, p. 125).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You put
וְתָ֘שֵׂ֤ם (wə·ṯā·śêm)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

my feet
רַגְלַ֗י (raḡ·lay)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda

in the stocks
בַּסַּ֨ד ׀ (bas·saḏ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5465: Stocks (for securing feet of prisoners)

and stand watch
וְתִשְׁמ֥וֹר (wə·ṯiš·mō·wr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

over all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

my paths;
אָרְחוֹתָ֑י (’ā·rə·ḥō·w·ṯāy)
Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 734: A well-trodden road, a caravan

You set a limit
תִּתְחַקֶּֽה׃ (tiṯ·ḥaq·qeh)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2707: To carve, to delineate, to entrench

for
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the soles
שָׁרְשֵׁ֥י (šā·rə·šê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 8328: A root

of my feet.
רַ֝גְלַ֗י (raḡ·lay)
Noun - fdc | first person common singular
Strong's 7272: A foot, a step, the pudenda


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