Job 13:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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.

Stocks - in which the prisoner's feet were made fast until the time of execution (Jeremiah 20:2).

Lookest narrowly - as an overseer would watch a prisoner.

Print. Either the stocks or his disease marked his soles (Hebrew, roots), as the bastinado would. Better, thou drawest (or diggest) (Gesenius) for thyself - i:e., to effect thy purpose-a line (or trench) (Gesenius) round my soles, beyond which I must not move (Umbreit). х titchaqeh (H2707) Job 3:23; Job 19:8, "He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass."]

Job 13:27

27 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.