Job 13:27 Meaning and Explanation
“Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Job feels imprisoned and watched by God, with every step confined and marked.
What Does Job 13:27 Mean?
Job piles up images of confinement. God has fastened his feet in the stocks like a prisoner, watches his every path with narrow scrutiny, and even marks the soles of his feet, tracing and limiting his every movement.
Job feels hemmed in on all sides, his freedom gone and his life under relentless surveillance. In his pain it feels like imprisonment. Yet the same truth he experiences as confinement is, from another angle, a comfort: God truly does see every step we take. What feels like a watchful jailer to the suffering can become, in the light of grace, the loving attentiveness of a Shepherd who knows our path completely and never loses sight of His own.
Job 13:27 in the Original Language
sad (סַד), 'stocks' -- a wooden device that clamped a prisoner's feet, a vivid image of restraint and captivity.
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What does Job 13:27 mean?
Job feels imprisoned and watched by God, with every step confined and marked.