Job 13 · Verse 27

Job 13:27

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.
Job 13:27, King James Version

Job 13:27 in other translations

BSBYou put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
WEBYou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
ASVThou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:
YLTAnd puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
DARBYAnd thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; —
BBEAnd you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
WebsterThou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

What does Job 13:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
27. stocks--in which the prisoner's feet were made fast until the time of execution (Jr 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] a line (or trench) [Gesenius] round my soles, beyond which I must not move [Umbreit].

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks - בסד bassad, "in a clog," such as was tied to the feet of slaves, to prevent them from running away. This is still used in the West Indies, among slave-dealers; and is there called the pudding, being a large collar of iron, locked round the ankle of the unfortunate man. Some have had them twenty pounds' weight; and, having been condemned to carry them for several years, when released could not walk without them! A case of this kind I knew: The slave had learned to walk well with his pudding, but when taken off, if he attempted to walk, he fell down, and was obliged to resume it occasionally, till practice had taught him the proper center of gravity, which had been so materially altered by wearing so large a weight; the badge at once of his oppression, and of the cruelty of his task-masters! And lookest narrowly - Thou hast seen all my goings out and comings in; and there is no step I have taken in life with which thou art unacquainted. Thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet - Some understand this as the mark left on the foot by the clog; or the owner's mark indented on this clog; or, Thou hast pursued me as a hound does his game, by the scent.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 13:23-28

Job begs to have his sins discovered to him. A true penitent is willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know what our transgressions are, that we may confess them, and guard against them for the future. Job complains sorrowfully of God's severe dealings with him. Time does not wear out the guilt of sin. When God writes bitter things against us, his design is to make us bring forgotten sins…

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Job 13:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְתָ֘שֵׂ֤םve.Ta.Semand you putH7760
בַּסַּ֨ד\׀ba.Sadin the stock[s]H5465
רַגְלַ֗יrag.Laifeet myH7272
וְתִשְׁמ֥וֹרve.tish.Morso you may watchH8104
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
אָרְחוֹתָ֑י'a.re.cho.Taipaths myH734
עַל\־'al-onH5921
שָׁרְשֵׁ֥יsha.re.Shei[the] roots ofH8328
רַ֝גְלַ֗יrag.Laifeet myH7272
תִּתְחַקֶּֽה\׃tit.cha.Kehyou make a markH2707

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 13:27

  • Job 33:11

    He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

  • Job 14:16

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

  • 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;

  • 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.

  • Acts 16:24

    Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

  • 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. And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

  • 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.

  • Job 10:6

    That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
puttest.
33:11; 2Ch 16:10-12; Pr 7:22; Ac 16:24
and lookest. Heb. and observest.
10:6; 14:16; 16:9
settest.
2:7
heels. Heb. roots.

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Context

  • Job 13:26

    For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

  • Job 13:27

    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.

  • Job 13:28

    And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.

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Job 13:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Pones además mis pies en el cepo, y guardas todos mis caminos, imprimiéndolo á las raíces de mis pies.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et tu mets mes pieds dans les ceps, et tu observes tous mes sentiers; tu as tracé une ligne autour des plantes de mes pieds;
German
Elberfelder 1871		und meine Füße legst du in den Stock, und beobachtest alle meine Pfade, grenzest dir ein die Sohlen meiner Füße;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Posuisti in nervo pedem meum, et observasti omnes semitas meas, et vestigia pedum meorum considerasti: