27 You put my feet in the stocks
and stand watch over all my paths,
setting a limit for the soles[a] of my feet.

28 A person wears out like something rotten,
like a moth-eaten garment.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 13:27 Lit paths. You mark a line around the roots

27 You fasten my feet in shackles;(A)
    you keep close watch on all my paths(B)
    by putting marks on the soles of my feet.

28 “So man wastes away like something rotten,
    like a garment(C) eaten by moths.(D)

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