OLD TESTAMENT

Job 13:27

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27

You also put my feet in the stocks, and mark all my paths. You set a bound to the soles of my feet,

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Verse 27. Stocks, in which the person’s legs were sometimes stretched to the sixth hole; ( Calmet.) at other times, the neck was confined. Menochius.—Some translate the Hebrew “in the mud,” which agrees with the other part of the verse.—Steps. Hebrew and Septuagint “roots,” or ankles, which retain the prints made by the stocks.

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