John Trapp on Job 13:27

Verſe 27. Thou putteſt my feet alſo in the ſtocks] Mercer here obſerveth an elegant gradation in Gods proceeding with Job, as himſelf deſcribeth it, riſing higher and higher in his diſcourſe. 1. God hid his face, and denyed him his favour. 2. He counted him as his enemy. 3. He broke him like a leafe or ſtubble. 4. He wrote bitter things againſt him. 5. He made him poſſeſſe the ſins of his youth. 6. For his young ſins he claps him up cloſe priſoner now in his old age, and there keeps him as with a ſtrict guard following him cloſe at heels, if he but ſtirre a foot; was there ever ſorrow like unto Jobs ſorrow? was ever greater ſeverity and rigour ſhewed upon any godly perſon? Where then ſhall the ungodly and the ſinner appear &c? Gods wrath is like Eliah's cloud, little at firſt, as a mans hand, but ſoon after very diſmal and dreadful; or as thunder, of which we hear at firſt a little noiſe afarre off, but ſoon after a terrible crack. Well might Moſes ſay, Who knoweth the power of thine anger?Pſalm 90.19. Cavebis auteus, ſi pavebis.

And lookeſt narrowly into all my paths] He ſaith not wayes, but paths. Gregory maketh this difference; Wayes are larger, Paths narrower; God then is ſaid to look into all mens paths, when he looketh not only at the evil done by them, but at the intention of their mind, which is not ſo eaſily diſcerned but by him the ſearcher of all hearts. And for that which followeth,

Thou ſetteſt a print upon the heels of my feet.] Gregory here obſerveth, that God looketh at the hurt done to others by examples given by mens evil doings unto them, leaving a print upon the ground, as it were, whereby others follow them, and ſo their ſin is in this regard made the greater: to which purpoſe ſome ſenſe thoſe words Pſalm 49.5. when the iniquity of my heels ſhall compaſſe me about. Others make Jobs meaning here to be, Thou followeſt me with continual purſuit, as a priſoner that is dog'd at heels by his keeper from place, to place leſt he ſhould eſcape.Diod. Thou followeſt me cloſe, and upon the track like a hunter, Job 10.16. The foot-ſteps of thy wrath (ſaith an Interpreter) are ſeen upon the ſoles of my feet (ſo that from top to toe I have no free part) like as priſoners feet are oft ſwelled with the weight of their fetters.