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Job 14:16

Figures expressing the keen scrutiny with which God watches man's life in order to detect his false steps and observe his every sin, cf. ch. Job 13:27.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 14:16. _FOR NOW THOU NUMBEREST MY STEPS_] כי עתה _ki attah,_ _ALTHOUGH thou_, c. Though thou, by thy conduct towards me, seemest bent on my utter destruction, yet thou delightest in mercy, a...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 sever...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB 14:16 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 mountains pe...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SIN. Hebrew. _Chata_ App-44....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR NOW, &C.— _But now thou,_ &c. _Do not watch mine offences so narrowly:_ Job 14:17. _Do not seal up my transgression in a bag, or note mine iniquities in thy register._ The word rendered _sewest up...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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 progress, the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    9. Job longs for an afterlife. (Job 14:13-17) TEXT 14:13-17 13 OH THAT THOU WOULDEST HIDE ME IN SHEOL, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a s...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _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 watching f...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 14 JOB CONTINUES HIS PRAYER...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job thought that God caused his troubles. So, Job thought that God was angry. In fact, God was not angry with Job. God was pleased with Job. And God did not cause Job’s troubles. The devil caused Job’...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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 as...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־עַ֭תָּה צְעָדַ֣י תִּסְפֹּ֑ור לֹֽא ־תִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ור...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SHALL MAN LIVE AGAIN? Job 14:1 Continuing his appeal, Job looks from his own case to _the condition of mankind generally,_ Job 14:1. All men are frail and full of trouble, Job 14:12; why should God b...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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 durat...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _But. Hebrew, "Mark out, (Calmet) or dost thou not observe my sin?" This fills me with terror, (Haydock) unless thou shew mercy._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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 be...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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, of e...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 pl...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A PRAYER TO BE DELIVERED FROM HIS AFFLICTION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For now Thou numberest my steps, at this time God was still watching his every move as that of a transgressor; DOST THOU NOT WATCH OVER MY SIN? So deep was Job's despair that he believed God was still...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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 generally tr...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Is this an anticipation of forgiveness or. complaint that God is watching him presently and keeps whatever sin or sins Job has supposedly committed sealed up in. bag and won't open it for Job to see?...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    16-22 Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who co...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 it is f...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 14:16 number H5608 (H8799) steps H6806 watch H8104 (H8799) sin H2403 thou numberest - Job 10:6,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to his friends continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job. CONCLUSION: God's providence has the ordering of the period of our lives; our times are in His hand. The consideration of our i...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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 we...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 appl...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 14:15 Job longs for a renewal in which God would secure his path and forgive his sin (vv. Job 14:15). But he concludes that just as the elements wash away rock and soil, so God will we...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CONTINUATION OF JOB’S PLEADING WITH GOD_ I. Pleads the common infirmity of human nature (Job 14:1). Man, from the very nature of his birth, frail and mortal, suffering and sinful. “Born of a woman.”...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 14:1 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 vehemence and p...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Man that is born of a woman is of few days, he's full of trouble. He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow [or the shadow on the sundial], and continues not (Job 14:1-2...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Jeremiah 32:19; Job 10:14; Job 10:6; Job 13:27; Job 31:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Numbereth — Thou makest a strict enquiry into all my actions....

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