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But now you number my steps. Don`t you watch over my sin?
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The Weight of Scrutiny
Job expresses a profound sense of being under God's intense and unforgiving scrutiny. Commentators explain that "numbering my steps" and "watching over my sin" convey Job's feeling that God is meticulously cataloging every mistake to hold against him, treating him with what feels like extreme severity.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For now you number my steps - You make strict inquiry into all my conduct, that you may mark my errors and hold me bound to punishm…
19th Century
Anglican
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.…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For now you number my steps Or "but now" F7 , at this present time you seem to have no desire to me, or a…
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13th Century
Catholic
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