Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
Job 36:8 - 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: |
Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
He delivers the afflicted by their affliction, and opens their ear by adversity.
Take heed, do not turn to iniquity, for this you have chosen rather than affliction.
Some sat in darkness and in gloom, prisoners in affliction and in irons,
The snares of death encompassed me; the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me; I suffered distress and anguish.
to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron,
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.