# 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. AT: "they watch everything I do" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])

# just as they have waited for my life

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