Job 13:27

Revised Version 1885

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and markest all my paths; Thou drawest thee a line about the soles of my feet:

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

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

He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as fetters to the correction of the fool;

He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?

That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin,

So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

Then Pashhur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of the LORD.

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?