Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks - bassad , "in a clog," such as was tied to the feet of slaves, to prevent them from running away. This is still used in the West Indies, among slave-dealers; and is there called the pudding, being a large collar of iron, locked round the ankle of the unfortunate man. Some have had them twenty pounds' weight; and, having been condemned to carry them for several years, when released could not walk without them! A case of this kind I knew: The slave had learned to walk well with his pudding, but when taken off, if he attempted to walk, he fell down, and was obliged to resume it occasionally, till practice had taught him the proper center of gravity, which had been so materially altered by wearing so large a weight; the badge at once of his oppression, and of the cruelty of his task-masters!
And lookest narrowly - Thou hast seen all my goings out and comings in; and there is no step I have taken in life with which thou art unacquainted.
Thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet - Some understand this as the mark left on the foot by the clog; or the owner' s mark indented on this clog; or, Thou hast pursued me as a hound does his game, by the scent.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Job 13:27:
Job 33:8
Job 33:11
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