“ For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? ”
For now thou numberest my steps - Thou dost make strict inquiry into all my conduct, that thou mayest mark my errors, and hold me bound to punishment. The sense is, that God treated him now with...
Job 14:16-22 turns to the contrast of Job's present misery and hopeless end. Now God watches Job ( Job 14:16 ). God writes down his sins, and seals up the indictments in a bag ( Job 14:17 ). The...
sin. Hebrew. Chata App-44.
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? Job 14:16 For now thou numberest my steps - כי עתה ki attah, Although thou, etc. Though thou, by thy conduct towards me, seemest b...
For there is hope of a tree, &c.— Job begins this chapter with a reflection on the shortness and wretchedness of human life, a truth which he had so sadly learned from experience. In his progre...
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? Rather, 'Yea thou wilt number, etc., and wilt not (as now) jealously watch over my sin.' Thenceforward, instead of severe watc...
Job's Third Speech (concluded) 1-6. Job pleads for God's forbearance on the grounds of man's shortness of life and sinful nature. 1, 2. The well-known Sentence in the Burial Service.
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? — “It is sealed up in a bag, and Thou fastenest up mine iniquity. But persecution so persistent would wear out the strongest, even...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...
Shall Man Live Again? Job 14:1-22 Continuing his appeal, Job looks from his own case to the condition of mankind generally, Job 14:1-6 . All men are frail and full of trouble, Job 14:12 ; w...
Taking a more general outlook, Job declared that man's life is ever transitory, and full of trouble. This should be a reason why God should pity him, and let him work out the brief period of its dura...
(16) В¶ For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? (17) My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. (18) And surely the mountain falling cometh to...
For now thou numberest my steps ,.... Or "but now" g, at this present time thou seemest to have no desire to me, or affection for me, but the reverse. Job was in a pretty good frame of mind a little...
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? Ver. 16. For now thou numberest my steps ] Or, But now thou numberest, &c., thou keepest an exact account of every sin of mine...
For now Or rather, But now , for this seems to be added by way of opposition, as if he had said, I believe thou wilt pity, help, and deliver me, and even wonderfully change my person, state, and p...
MAN'S DECAY AND DEATH (vv.1-12) What Job had said in chapter 3:28 he expands upon in these verses, giving a vivid description of the evanescent character of man's life on earth. This is generall...
Complainings of Job. B. C. 1520. 16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not wat...
For now; so this is a reason of his desire of death, Job 14:13 . Or rather, But now ; for this seems to be added by way of opposition. I believe thou wilt pity and help me, but for the present...
CONTINUATION OF JOB’S PLEADING WITH GOD I. Pleads the common infirmity of human nature ( Job 14:1-4 ). Man, from the very nature of his birth, frail and mortal, suffering and sinful. “Born of a...
Job 14:4 . Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Then seeing we are all stained with original and actual sin, why should Zophar, without the least proof, almost say that Job's afflictions...
For Thou numberest my steps. God compassing our paths Some people think this idea is oppressive. They shrink from it. It contracts their being, and depresses their energy. You have seen a ripe...
EXPOSITION Job 14:1-18 This chapter, in which Job concludes the fourth of his addresses, is characterized by a tone of mild and gentle expostulation, which contrasts with the comparative ve...
A Prayer to be Delivered from his Affliction
Jeremiah 32:19 ; Job 10:14 ; Job 10:6 ; Job 13:27 ; Job 31:4 ; Job 33:11 ; Job 34:21 ; Proverbs 5:21 ; Psalms 139:1-4 ; Psalms 56:6
Numbereth — Thou makest a strict enquiry into all my actions.