Job 33:11
in Job 33He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.
KJV
He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
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This verse in Job 33
Commentary
9 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
He putteth my feet in the stocks - This also is language which Job had used; see Job 13:27. “He marketh all my paths;” in Job 13:27, “Thou lookest narrowly unto all my paths;” see the notes at that verse.
This site's exposition
Surely you have spoken in my hearing
on Job 33:8-12
“Surely you have spoken in my hearing” begins Elihu's quotation. He answers, “you are not right in this matter”, “for God is greater than man”. Wesley reads verse 12 as the thesis stated early, the argument still to come, and Henry notes the quotation is fair to Job's words.
This site's exposition
He puts my feet in the stocks
Both clauses come almost word for word from Job 13:27, as Barnes and Clarke note. Aquinas reads the stocks as a judge binding the accused. A man in the stocks cannot walk his paths or make his defense.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
A commentator
Gregory the DialogistMorals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII · Written before 604.
proposed
I am clean, and without spot of sin, and there is no iniquity in me, because He hath found complaints in me, therefore He hath counted me as His enemy, He hath placed my feet in the stocks, He hath guarded all my ways. And in answer to these words which he said blessed Job had spoken, he immediately states his own opinion.
Second, a judge is unfair if he takes away from someone the ability to mount a just defense. Expressing this he says, "he put my feet in the stocks," for he bound me as if to impede me from my works. Third, a judge is …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
16, 17 , Dost thou not watch over my sin? He counteth me for his enemy; so he had expressly said, ch. xiii. 11 . " He putteth my feet in the stocks, that, as I cannot contend with him, so I may not be able to flee from him;" this he had said, ch. xiii.
And sickness, ver. 19- 30. He requests Job to answer him, or let him go on, ver. 31-33 Commentary on Chapter XXXIII 3. My words - I will not speak passionately or partially, but from a sincere desire to do thee good.
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1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
He putteth my feet in the stocks - See the note on Job 13:27.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
for God exceeds man God does not have to be so exact with man because the Holy One, blessed be He, has more virtues than man.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 7 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יָשֵׂ֣ם | yasem | he puts | H7760 → | 584 times |
| בַּסַּ֣ד | basad | in the stock[s] | H5465 → | |
| רַגְלָ֑י | raglai | feet my | H7272 → | 247 times |
| יִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר | yishmor | he watches | H8104 → | 468 times |
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אָרְחֹתָֽי׃ | ʾarechotai | paths my | H734 → | 58 times |
יָשֵׂ֣םhe puts
yasemH7760 →584 times
בַּסַּ֣דin the stock[s]
basadH5465 →
רַגְלָ֑יfeet my
raglaiH7272 →247 times
יִ֝שְׁמֹ֗רhe watches
yishmorH8104 →468 times
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
אָרְחֹתָֽי׃paths my
ʾarechotaiH734 →58 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Job 31:4Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
it leads to
- Job 34:21
For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Proverbs 5:21
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 2 Chronicles 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD roam to and fro over all the earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are fully devoted to Him. You have acted foolishly in…
- Job 14:16
For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
- Proverbs 15:3
The eyes of the LORD are in every place, observing the evil and the good.
- Job 34:21
Through
Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
it leads to
- Job 10:6
that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Job 10:6
Through
Psalms 105:18They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
it leads to
- Acts 16:24
On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Acts 16:24
Through
Jeremiah 20:2he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 37:13
But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
- Jeremiah 37:13
Where this verse is studied
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About Job
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.