Holy Scripture

Job 13:27

A church father on this verse
“Thou puttest my foot also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly into all my paths; Thou markest the prints of my feet. God 'set man's foot in the stocks,' in that he bound fast his wickedness with the strong sentence of His severity. And He 'looketh narrowly into all his paths,' in that He judges with minute exactness a…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI

Source: Septuagint

Original

27And thou hast placed my foot in the stocks; And thou hast watched all my works, And hast penetrated to my heels.

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25Wilt thou be startled at me, as at a leaf shaken by the wind? Or wilt thou set thyself against me as against grass borne upon the breeze?

26For thou hast written evil things against me, And thou hast compassed me with the sins of my youth.

— Job 13:27 —

28I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, Or like a moth-eaten garment.

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