Job 33:11 Meaning and Explanation
“He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Job had also complained that God locks his feet in the stocks and watches every step he takes.
What Does Job 33:11 Mean?
The image is of a prisoner. Job felt his movements confined as if his feet were clamped in wooden stocks, and his every path marked and scrutinized, as though under constant surveillance.
Affliction can make even God’s nearness feel like a cage. Yet the watching eye that seems a jailer’s is also the gaze of One who never loses sight of His own. What feels like confinement may, in time, be revealed as a holding fast that would not let Job go.
Job 33:11 in the Original Language
sad (סַד), 'stocks' -- a wooden device that clamped a prisoner’s feet.
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What does Job 33:11 mean?
Job had also complained that God locks his feet in the stocks and watches every step he takes.