Job 33:11

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.'

World English Bible · Public Domain

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בַּסַּ֣ד

çad

H5465

“in/at the · stocks”

Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Job 13:27

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to estop

TWOT: 1464

stocks (for feet)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

6: words
6: distinct lemmas
Wisdom: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is בַּסַּ֣ד stocks H5465 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

בַּסַּ֣ד stocks H5465 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Job 13:27

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
4 nouns

Verb forms

יָשֵׂ֣ם Qal · Jussive
יִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 15 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Job 33:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Job 13:27 You also put my feet in the stocks, And mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet:
Job 31:4 Doesn't he see my ways, And number all my steps?
Job 14:16 But now you number my steps. Don't you watch over my sin?
Psalms 105:18 They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,
Jeremiah 20:2 Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Yahweh.
Daniel 4:35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or tell him, What do you?
Acts 16:24 who, having received such a charge, threw them into the inner prison, and secured their feet in the stocks.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Job 33:11 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

יָשֵׂ֣ם בַּסַּ֣ד רַגְלָ֑י יִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר כָּל אָרְחֹתָֽי

He puts my feet in the stocks, He marks all my paths.'

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Job 33:11 Septuagint · lemma form

τίθημι δέ ἐν ξύλον ὁ πούς ἐγώ φυλάσσω δέ ἐγώ πᾶς ὁ ὁδός

And he has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Job 33:11 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Job 33:11 He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.

Ver. 11. He putteth my feet in the stocks, &c.] See Job 13:27; Job 14:16, {See Trapp on "Job 13:27"} {See Trapp on "Job 14:16"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

33:11 Job frequently complained about God’s surveillance (7:20; 10:14; 13:27); he wanted relief from having his every move scrutinized (14:16; 29:2).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown

(Job 13:27).

marketh--narrowly watches (Job 14:16; Job 7:12; Job 31:4).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 11. He putteth my feet in the stocks] See Clarke on Job 13:27.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(11) He putteth my feet in the stocks.—Referring, probably, to Job_13:27.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

11. See ch. Job_13:27.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

He putteth my feet in the stocks,.... This also he had said, Job 13:27; by which he would suggest not only that his afflictions were painful and disgraceful, and from which he could not extricate himself, being close fettered by them; but that they were inflicted on him as punishments, and he was treated as a criminal, as a malefactor, who had been guilty of some notorious breach of the law:

he marketh all my paths; looked narrowly at them, numbered and counted them; this also he had said, Job 13:27; meaning not only his natural and civil paths and steps, but his moral ones, that he could not step the least awry, but presently it was marked and observed, Job 10:14; but though God does take notice of the sins of his people, and chastises them for them, yet he does not mark them in strict justice, for, should he, they could not stand before him, Psa 130:3.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

He putteth my feet in the stocks - This also is language which Job had used; see Job 13:27. “He marketh all my paths;” in Job 13:27, “Thou lookest narrowly unto all my paths;” see the notes at that verse.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Stocks. Chap. xiii.14., and xiv. 16. Eliu interprets the words in the worst sense, though Job had only expostulated with God on the treatment which he received, testifying a great love and confidence in him. He acknowledges some want of knowledge, chap. xlii. 3. (Calmet)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

He narrowly pries into all my actions, that he may find matter for further severities against me.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

11. Elihu reproduces here Job_13:27, where see note. Says Caryl: “Having ended his sweet, ingenious, insinuating preface, Elihu falls roundly to the business, and begins a very sharp charge.”

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

He putteth my feet in the stocks. A reference to Job"s words in Job_13:27. He marketh all my paths. (comp. Job_31:4, and Job_7:17-19)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Marketh - He narrowly prys into all my actions, that he may find matter against me.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Job, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is çad (“stocks”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “stocks” (çad) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Job 13:27, which shares the word «stocks», read alongside this verse?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
«יָשֵׂ֣ם» is a Qal Jussive verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.