He putteth my feet in the stocks, he marketh all my paths.
The saying stands in Elihu's speeches in Job 32-37, the third of the four parts of the poetical book of Job, coming after the prologue and the debate between Job and his three friends and before the speeches of the Lord out of the storm-cloud. Within that structure it falls in the portion running from chapter 20 to chapter 37, after the argument between Job and his friends closes. Those speeches are the instructive discourses in Job 32 to 36, which come before God speaks to His servant Job in chapters 38 to 41 to show Job's folly in questioning the providences of God.
Elihu steps in as a younger man, thinking his superior wisdom will correct Job, and follows in about the same line as the others. In this argument he tries to convince Job that Job is not great in himself while God is everything. At this point Job is still defending himself, knowing he has committed no open sins against God and earnestly wanting God to manifest Himself to him. Job makes no answer to Elihu's plea, and Elihu's discourse did little to help Job.
The saying stands in Elihu's speeches in Job 32-37, the third of the four parts of the poetical book of Job, coming after the prologue and the debate between Job and his three friends and before the speeches of the Lord out of the storm-cloud. Within that structure it falls in the portion running from chapter 20 to chapter 37, after the argument between Job and his friends closes. Those speeches are the instructive discourses in Job 32 to 36, which come before God speaks to His servant Job in chapters 38 to 41 to show Job's folly in questioning the providences of God.
Elihu steps in as a younger man, thinking his superior wisdom will correct Job, and follows in about the same line as the others. In this argument he tries to convince Job that Job is not great in himself while God is everything. At this point Job is still defending himself, knowing he has committed no open sins against God and earnestly wanting God to manifest Himself to him. Job makes no answer to Elihu's plea, and Elihu's discourse did little to help Job.