Verse 27
27. The stocks Some kind of clog for the feet, which the culprit shuffled about with him when he moved, perhaps similar to those in more recent times fastened to the feet of malefactors or fugitive slaves. “At Pompeii stocks have been found so contrived that ten prisoners might be chained by the leg, each leg separately, by the sliding of a bar.” KITTO, Pictorial Bible.
Thou settest a print Literally, Around the roots of my feet thou settest a bound. Thus he was imprisoned against any possibility of escape.
Heels Literally, roots: “that part of the feet through which, standing or going, like a tree through its roots, man is fastened to the earth.” Stickel. The figures in this verse hinge upon the swollen condition of his feet a marked feature of the elephantiasis, in the course of which, says WINER, ( Rwb., 1:115,) “the feet swell to a horrible extent.” See note Job 2:7.
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