KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Job 14:16–18
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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.
Job 14:18
18And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
18And surely the mountaine falling †commeth to nought: and the rocke is remoued out of his place.
- Heb. fadeth.
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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.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
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.
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Wickedness, unrighteousness, injustice, or a particular sin.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Job 14:18
Certainly, truly, firmly, or without doubt.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Descending, dropping, declining, failing, or coming down from a higher place or condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Moved away, taken away, displaced, changed, or put at a distance.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
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.
From verse 18
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Open the full verse study14And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
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Open the full verse study4He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
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Open the full verse study24I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
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Open the full verse study12¶ Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
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Open the full verse study15Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
16Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
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Open the full verse study10For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
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Open the full verse study1OH that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
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Open the full verse study51And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
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Open the full verse study25Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
26They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
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Open the full verse study11And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
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Open the full verse study8And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
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