Job 13:27You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,
The setting
Ancient Uz. Job continues his legal complaint, using imagery from prison and tracking systems of his day...
The emotion here: claustrophobic desperation, feeling like a prisoner under divine surveillance
The original word
sad (סַד) — stocks, wooden restraints that held prisoners' feet immobile
Why it matters
Ancient stocks were wooden frames with holes that held ankles at painful angles for days
Read with care
What most readers miss in Job 13:27
Job uses three different images of being trapped: stocks, marked paths, and boundaries — he feels completely confined
Common misconceptionMany read this as Job being paranoid, but he's describing the legitimate feeling that God has become his warden rather than his protector.
The thread continues
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Bible Genome reading
Job 13:27 — Bible Genome reading
Emotional genome
Job 13:27 comes from the book of Job, written during the Patriarchal period. These words are attributed to Job. The dominant emotion in this verse is anxious, with a comfort power of 30% and a tone that is lamenting. It belongs to the poetry genre of biblical literature. Key themes include restriction, surveillance. Notable phrases: feet in stocks; mark all my paths. This verse is a prayer.
Emotionally similar
Verses that meet the same anxious
“And no wonder, for even Satan masquerades as an angel of light.”
— 2 Corinthians 11:14
“Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.”
— 2 Timothy 3:12
“The evil spirit answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know, but who are you?"”
— Acts 19:15
“I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?'”
— Acts 22:7
“When we had all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, 'Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is har…”
— Acts 26:14
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