Job 13:27 - Exposition

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks (comp. Job 33:11 ). The punishment is said to be still in use among the Bedouin Arabs. It was well known to the Israelites ( Proverbs 7:22 ; Jeremiah 20:2 ; Jeremiah 29:26 ), to the Greeks (Herod; 9.87), and to the Romans ( Acts 16:24 ). And lookest narrowly unto all my paths. Not allowing me to escape thee. Thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet; rather, upon the soles of my feet. The "print" intended is probably a mark which the stocks were in the habit of making.