King James Version
Job 31:4 in the King James Version says “Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?” — study this verse from Job chapter 31 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?”
Job 31:4 · KJV
For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity. Let: Heb. Let him weigh me in balances of justice
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“Doth not he see”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“my ways”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and count”
H5608properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e., (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e., celebra
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