Job 31 · Verse 4

Job 31:4

Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job 31:4, King James Version

Job 31:4 in other translations

BSBDoes He not see my ways and count my every step?
WEBDoesn’t he see my ways, and count all my steps?
ASVDoth not he see my ways, And number all my steps?
YLTDoth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?
DARBYDoth not he see my ways, and number all my steps?
BBEDoes he not see my ways, and are not my steps all numbered?
WebsterDoth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

What does Job 31:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 31:1-4

Job 31:1-40. 1. Job proceeds to prove that he deserved a better lot. As in the twenty-ninth chapter, he showed his uprightness as an emir, or magistrate in public life, so in this chapter he vindicates his character in private life. 1-4. He asserts his guarding against being allured to sin by his senses. think--rather, "cast a (lustful) look." He not merely did not so, but put it out of the question by covenanting…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 Doth not he see my ways - Can I suppose that I could screen myself from the eye of God while guilty of such iniquities?

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 31:1-8

Job did not speak the things here recorded by way of boasting, but in answer to the charge of hypocrisy. He understood the spiritual nature of God's commandments, as reaching to the thoughts and intents of the heart. It is best to let our actions speak for us; but in some cases we owe it to ourselves and to the cause of God, solemnly to protest our innocence of the crimes of which we are falsely accused. The lusts…

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Job 31:4 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.

הֲלֹא\־ha.lo'-¿ notH3808
ה֭וּאhu'heH1931
יִרְאֶ֣הyir.'Ehdoes he seeH7200
דְרָכָ֑יde.ra.Khaiways myH1870
וְֽכָל\־ve.kholand allH3605
צְעָדַ֥יtze.'a.Daisteps myH6806
יִסְפּֽוֹר\׃yis.Pordoes he count?H5608

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

Cross references for Job 31:4

  • Job 34:21

    For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

  • Proverbs 5:21

    For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.

  • 2 Chronicles 16:9

    For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.

  • Job 14:16

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

  • Proverbs 15:3

    The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

  • Jeremiah 32:19

    Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

  • Jeremiah 16:17

    For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

  • Psalms 139:1-3

    To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O Lord, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

  • Psalms 44:21

    Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

  • Genesis 16:13

    And she called the name of the Lord that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?

  • Hebrews 4:13

    Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

  • John 1:48

    Nathanael saith unto him, Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
14:16; 34:21; Ge 16:13; 2Ch 16:9; Ps 44:21; 139:1-3; Pr 5:21; 15:3
Jer 16:17; 32:19; Joh 1:48; Heb 4:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 31:3

    Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?

  • Job 31:4

    Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

  • Job 31:5

    If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

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Job 31:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
¿No ve él mis caminos, y cuenta todos mis pasos?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Lui, ne voit-il pas mon chemin, et ne compte-t-il point tous mes pas?
German
Elberfelder 1871
Sieht er nicht meine Wege und zählt alle meine Schritte?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Nonne ipse considerat vias meas, et cunctos gressus meos dinumerat?