KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 14:16–17
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Job 14:16
16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
16*For nowe thou numbrest my steppes, doest thou not watch ouer my sinne?
- Psal. 136.2.
Job 14:17
17My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
17My transgression is sealed vp in a bagge, and thou sowest vp mine iniquitie.
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DEFINED WORDS
Job 14:16
To number: to count, reckon, appoint, or include among a group.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Movements or paces of the feet; footsteps, courses, degrees, or stages in going.
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Do: perform, act, or carry out; also used as an auxiliary verb.
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To stay awake, observe, guard, or keep vigil; also a guard duty or division of the night.
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Transgression of the law of God; an offence against God; or the sinful principle or condition, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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Job 14:17
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transgression
A passing beyond or violation of God's law, command, covenant, or known duty; an offense or sin.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To seal: to close, secure, mark, or authenticate with a seal.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A flexible container or pouch used to carry or hold something.
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Sews; joins or fastens with needle and thread.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wickedness, unrighteousness, injustice, or a particular sin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study6That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
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Open the full verse study4Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
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Open the full verse study21For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
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Open the full verse study21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
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Open the full verse study1O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
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Open the full verse study19Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:
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Open the full verse study11He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
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Open the full verse study27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.
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Open the full verse study6They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
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Open the full verse study14If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study34Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures?
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Open the full verse study12The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
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Open the full verse study19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
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