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Job 23:11
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My feet have followed in his tracks;I have kept to his way and not turned aside.
My foot has held fast to his steps. His way have I kept, and not turned aside.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
My feet have closely followed his steps; I have stayed in his way; I did not turn aside.
My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.
"My feet have carefully followed His steps; I have kept His ways and not turned aside.
"My foot has held on to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
My foot has held fast to his steps. His way have I kept, and not turned aside.
My foote hath followed his steps: his way haue I kept, and haue not declined.
My foot has held fast to His path;I have kept His way and not turned aside.
My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.
I have never refused to follow any of his commands,
My feet have stayed in his footsteps; I keep to his way without turning aside.
My foot hath held to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
I have always lived the way God wants. I have never stopped following him.
My feet have held firm to his steps, and I have kept his ways.
I follow faithfully the road he chooses, and never wander to either side.
My foot has held on to his steps; I have kept his way, and I have not turned aside.
My foot has held fast in His steps; I have kept His way and have not turned;
My foot hath held fast to his steps; His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
My feet have gone in his steps; I have kept in his way, without turning to one side or to the other.
My foot hath held fast to His steps, His way have I kept, and turned not aside.
My foot hath held his steps, his way haue I kept, and not declined.
My foote doth kepe his path, his hie way haue I holden, and will not go out of it.
And I will go forth according to his commandments, for I have kept his ways; and I shall not turn aside from his commandments,
My foot hath held fast to his steps; his way have I kept, and turned not aside.
My foot suede hise steppis; Y kepte his weie, and Y bowide not awey fro it.
My foot has held fast to his steps; His way I have kept, and didn't turn aside.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
For I have stayed on God's paths; I have followed his ways and not turned aside.
My foot has kept close to His steps. I have kept His way and have not turned aside.
My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
Of his steps, my foot taketh hold, His way, have I kept, and not swerved;
My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.
My foot has held fast to his steps; I have kept his way and have not turned aside.
On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,
"My foot has held fast to His path; I have kept His way and not turned aside.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
My foot: 1 Samuel 12:2-5, Psalms 18:20-24, Psalms 44:18, Acts 20:18, Acts 20:19, Acts 20:33, Acts 20:34, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 1 Thessalonians 2:10
his way: Job 17:9, Psalms 36:3, Psalms 125:5, Zephaniah 1:6, Luke 8:13-15, Romans 2:7, 2 Peter 2:20-22
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 9:4 - And if thou Job 1:1 - perfect Job 1:8 - upright Job 4:6 - the uprightness Job 24:13 - nor abide Job 33:9 - clean Psalms 37:23 - steps Psalms 37:31 - steps Psalms 94:15 - and all Psalms 119:20 - at all times Psalms 119:47 - which Psalms 119:51 - yet have Psalms 119:157 - yet do I Proverbs 4:5 - neither Isaiah 38:3 - I have Luke 8:15 - keep
Cross-References
O heare lorde, thou art a prynce of God amonge vs: bury thy dead in the best of oure sepulcres, there shall none of vs forbyd ye, that thou shuldest not bury thy deed in his sepulcre.
Then Abraham stode vp, and thanked the people of ye londe: namely the Hethites.
Then Abraham thanked the people of the londe,
for Abrahams owne good, with all the trees of the felde also rounde aboute, in the sight of the Hethites, and of all that go out and in at the gates of his cite.
So the felde and the caue therin was made sure of the Hethites vnto Abraham, for a possession to bury in.
The deed slayer shal be slayne at ye mouth of witnesses. One witnesse shal not answere ouer a soule to death.
At the mouth of two or thre witnesses shal he dye, that is worthy of death. At the mouth of one witnes shal he not dye.
One witnesse shal not stonde vp alone agaynst a man, ouer eny trespace or synne, what maner of synne so euer it be, yt a man can do, but in the mouth of two or thre witnesses shal euery matter be stablished.
Boos wente vp to ye gate, and sat him downe there: & beholde, whan ye nye kynsman wente by, Boos spake vnto him, & sayde: Come & syt the downe here (and called him by his name.) And he came & sat him downe,
therfore thoughte I to shewe it before thine eares, & to tell the: Yf thou wilt redeme it, then bye it before the citesyns & before the Elders of my people: but yf thou wylt not redeme it, then tell me, yt I maie knowe: for there is no nye kynsma excepte thou, and I nexte after the. He sayde: I wil redeme it.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My foot hath held his steps,.... Trod in the steps he has walked in; he followed God closely, imitated him in acts of holiness and righteousness, of mercy, kindness, and beneficence; and he continued therein; as he set his foot in the steps of God, which were to him for an example, he persisted therein; as he followed on to know him, so to imitate him, and walk worthy of him:
his way have I kept; the way he prescribed him, and directed him to walk in, the way of his commandments, which he observed constantly, and kept; though not perfectly, yet with great delight and pleasure, and so as not to be chargeable with any gross neglect of them, but in some sense to walk in all of them blameless, as not to be culpable before men:
and not declined: from the way of God, did not turn aside from it to the right or left, or go into crooked paths with wicked men, or wickedly depart from his God, his ways and worship, as David says,
Psalms 18:21.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My foot hath held his steps - Roberts, in his Oriental Illustrations, and the Editor of the Pictorial Bible, suppose that there is an allusion here to the active, grasping power which the Orientals have in their feet and toes. By constant usage they accustom themselves to make use of them in holding things in a manner which to us seems almost incredible, and they make the toes perform almost the work of fingers. We bind ours fast from early childhood in our close shoes, and they become useless except for the purpose of walking. But the Orientals use theirs differently. They seize upon an object with their toes, and hold it fast. If in walking along they see anything on the ground which they desire to pick up, instead of stooping as we would, they seize it with their toes, and lift it up. Alypulle, a Kandian chief, was about to be beheaded. When he arrived at the place of execution, he looked round for some object on which to seize, and saw a small shrub, and seized it with his toes, and held it fast in order to be firm while the executioner did his office. “Roberts.” So an Arab in treading firmly, or in taking a determined stand, seems to lay hold of, to grasp the ground with his toes, giving a fixedness of position inconceivable to those whose feet are cramped by the use of tight shoes. This may be the meaning here, that Job had fixed himself firmly in the footsteps of God, and had adhered tenaciously to him; or, as it is rendered by Dr. Good,” In his steps will I rivet my feet.”
And not declined - Turned aside.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 23:11. My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept — I have carefully marked his providential dealings; and in his way - his pure and undefiled religion - have I walked. I have not only been generally but particularly religious: I have attended carefully to the weightier matters of the law, and have not forgotten its slightest injunctions.
Coverdale is curious: - Nevertheles my fete kepe his path, his hye strete have I holden, and not gone out of it. The hye strete is highway, the causeway, or raised road; formed, as they anciently were, by stones in the manner of pavement. It has its name from the Latin strata, paved, via being understood: via lapidibus strata, "a way paved with stones:" hence street, a raised road or pavement either in town or country. And hence the four grand Roman or British roads which intersected this kingdom: viz. Watling street, Icknild or Ricknild street, Ermin street, and Fosse street. Some say these streets or roads were made by Bellinus, a British king.
Fosse street began in Cornwall, passed through Devonshire, Somersetshire, and along by Titbury upon Toteswould, beside Coventry, unto Leicester; and thence by the wide plains to Newark and to Lincoln, where it ends.
Watling street begins at Dover, passes through the middle of Kent, over the Thames by London, running near Westminster, and thence to St. Alban's, Dunstable, Stratford, Towcester, Weden, Lilbourn, Atherston, Wreaken by Severn, Worcester, Stratton, through Wales unto Cardigan, and on to the Irish sea.
Ermin, or Erminage street, running from St. David's in Wales, to Southampton.
Ricknild, or Icknild street, running by Worcester, Wycomb, Birmingham, Lichfield, Derby, Chesterfield, and by York, into Tynemouth. See Camden, Holinshed, and Minshieu.
