en_tn_condensed/psa/056/006.md

they mark my steps

Watching what a person does in order to see how to cause him trouble is spoken of as watching his steps, just as someone who wants to capture a person watches where that person walks. Alternate translation: "they watch everything I do" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)

just as they have waited for my life

Waiting to kill someone is spoken of as waiting for his life. Alternate translation: "as they wait to kill me" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)