You put my feet also in the stocks, and watch closely all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet.
All Commentaries on Job 13:27 Go To Job 13
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
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 retained the prints made by the stocks.