You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
Job 36:8 - New Revised Standard Version And if they are bound in fetters and caught in the cords of affliction, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And if they be bound in fetters, And be holden in cords of affliction; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And if they are bound in fetters [of adversity] and held by cords of affliction, [Ps. 107:10, 11.] American Standard Version (1901) And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction; Common English Bible If they are tied with ropes, caught in cords of affliction, Catholic Public Domain Version And, if they are in captivity, or are bound with the chains of poverty, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And if they shall be in chains, and be bound with the cords of poverty: |
You put my feet in the stocks, and watch all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net around me.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.
Beware! Do not turn to iniquity; because of that you have been tried by affliction.
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
to bind their kings with fetters and their nobles with chains of iron,
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the toils of their sin.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.