Job 13:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְתָ֘שֵׂ֤ם בַּסַּ֨ד ׀ רַגְלַ֗י וְתִשְׁמ֥וֹר כָּל־אָרְחוֹתָ֑י עַל־שָׁרְשֵׁ֥י רַ֝גְלַ֗י תִּתְחַקֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

wet̄āśēm bassad raglay wet̄išmôr kol-ʾorḥôt̄āy ʿal-šoršê raglay tit̄ḥaqqeh

Grammar Details

*wet̄āśēm*: conjunction + verb, Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - and you put
*bassad*: preposition + article + noun, masculine singular - in the stocks
*raglay*: noun, feminine dual construct with 1st person singular suffix - my feet
*wet̄išmôr*: conjunction + verb, Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - and you watch
*kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of
*ʾorḥôt̄āy*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person singular suffix - my paths
*ʿal*: preposition - upon
*šoršê*: noun, masculine plural construct - roots of
*tit̄ḥaqqeh*: verb, Hithpael imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you set a limit

Word Meanings

*bassad*: in the stocks/in shackles
*t̄išmôr*: watch/guard/observe
*ʾorḥôt̄āy*: my paths/my ways
*tit̄ḥaqqeh*: set a limit/mark/engrave

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Job 33:11 : 11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.
Prov 7:22 : 22 He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;
Acts 16:24 : 24 who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
2 Chr 16:10-12 : 10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison - house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. 11 And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel. 12 And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to Jehovah, but to the physicians.
Job 2:7 : 7 So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
Job 10:6 : 6 That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin,
Job 14:16 : 16 But now thou numberest my steps: Dost thou not watch over my sin?
Job 16:9 : 9 He hath torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me; He hath gnashed upon me with his teeth: Mine adversary sharpeneth his eyes upon me.

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