Gregory the Dialogist

Thou puttest my foot also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly into all my paths; Thou markest the prints of my feet. God 'set man's foot in the stocks,' in that he bound fast his wickedness with the strong sentence of His severity. And He 'looketh narrowly into all his paths,' in that He judges with minute exactness all the several particulars that belong to him. For a 'path' is usually narrower than a 'way;' but as by 'ways' we understand actions, so by 'paths' we not unjustly understand the mere thoughts of them. …

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI ↗

Thomas Aquinas

Fourth, someone could object that, even though Job had not committed grave sins, he had still committed some sins which are inevitable in this present life, and so he is punished for these in this way. He also rejects this saying, "Have you placed my foot in fetters; and observed all my paths, and have you considered the traces of my footsteps, I who am consumed like something rotten and like a garment eaten by the moth?" Here we should consider that those who are placed in prison fetters are so bound that they cannot get free. …

Commentary on Job ↗