Job 3:23 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ [Why is the light of day given] to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

Common English Bible

²³ Why is light given to the person whose way is hidden, whom God has fenced in?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has surrounded with darkness?

Job 3:23 Cross References

Job 12:14

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Job 13:27

Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly unto all my paths; thou settest a print upon the heels of my feet.

Job 19:12

His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

Job 19:6

know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

Job 19:8

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Job 3:22

which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Psalm 31:8

and hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

Psalm 88:8

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

Psalm 88:9

Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.

Isaiah 40:27

Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

Lamentations 3:7

He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

Lamentations 3:9

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy ways with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.