Charles Ellicott Commentary Job 14:16

"But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?" — Job 14:16 (ASV)

For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin? —“It is sealed up in a bag, and You fasten up my iniquity. But persecution so persistent would wear out the strongest, even as the mountain and the rock are gradually worn away. How much more then must I be the subject of decay? For You destroy the hope of man when he dies, so that he no longer has any interest in the welfare or any concern in the adversity of his children after him; only in his own person he has pain, and his own soul within him mourns.”