God's eyes 'are upon the ways of men' and he 'sees all their steps,' establishing divine omniscience as the foundation for divine justice. This verse asserts that nothing escapes God's sight and therefore nothing can escape divine judgment, suggesting that hidden sin cannot remain hidden from God's all-seeing eye. The image of God watching every step echoes Psalm 139 and establishes a comprehensive divine surveillance that Elihu will use to argue that if Job suffers, God must see a corresponding transgression. The verse reflects a significant theological insight: divine justice depends on divine omniscience, for a God who did not see all could not judge justly. Yet the verse also raises an anxiety: if God sees all, then God sees that Job is righteous, which would make his suffering prima facie unjust. Elihu's argument seems to require that God sees something in Job that Job himself does not see—hidden sin that explains his suffering—a claim that Job has repeatedly denied and that lacks empirical confirmation.

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