Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps;
New American Standard Bible
And watch all my paths;
You
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
and stand watch over all my paths,
setting a limit for the soles
International Standard Version
You've locked my feet in stocks; you watch all my steps; You've limited where I can walk.
A Conservative Version
Thou also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. Thou set a bound to the soles of my feet.
American Standard Version
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:
Amplified
“You also put my feet in the stocks [as punishment]
And [critically] observe all my paths;
You set a circle and limit around the soles of my feet [which I must not overstep],
Darby Translation
And thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and markest all my paths; thou settest a bound about the soles of my feet; --
Julia Smith Translation
And thou wilt set my feet in the stocks, and thou wilt watch all my paths; thou wilt dig round the roots of my feet
King James 2000
You put my feet also in the stocks, and watch closely all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And you put my feet in the block, and you watch all my paths; you carve [a mark] on the soles of my feet.
Modern King James verseion
You put my feet also in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou hast put my foot in the stocks: thou lookest narrowly unto all my paths, and markest the steps of my feet.
NET Bible
And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.
New Heart English Bible
You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
The Emphasized Bible
And thou dost put - in the stocks - my feet, and observest all my paths, Against the roots of my feet, thou dost cut out a bound;
Webster
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly to all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
World English Bible
You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
Youngs Literal Translation
And puttest in the stocks my feet, And observest all my paths, On the roots of my feet Thou settest a print,
Themes
physical Bondage » In prison » In stocks
Feet » Of criminals » Placed in stocks
human Limitations » Man subject to » Feet in the stocks
Interlinear
Suwm
Shamar
'orach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Argues His Case With God
26 For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years; 27 And you put chains on my feet, watching all my ways, and making a limit for my steps; 28 Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.
Cross References
Job 33:11
He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.
2 Chronicles 16:10-12
Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.
Job 2:7
And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.
Job 10:6
That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,
Job 14:16
For now my steps are numbered by you, and my sin is not overlooked.
Job 16:9
I am broken by his wrath, and his hate has gone after me; he has made his teeth sharp against me: my haters are looking on me with cruel eyes;
Proverbs 7:22
The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
Acts 16:24
And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.