🌪️WEB · Job 14:16

What does Job 14:16 mean?

"But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?"

— Job 14:16 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

13

“Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

14

If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until my release should come.

15

You would call, and I would answer you. You would have a desire to the work of your hands.

16

But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?

17

My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.

18

“But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

19

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

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