Job 3:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ Why is light given to one who cannot see the way, whom God has fenced 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?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

Job 3:23 Cross References

Job 12:14

If he tears down, no one can rebuild; if he shuts someone in, no one can open up.

Job 13:27

You put my feet in the stocks and watch all my paths; you set a bound to the soles of my feet.

Job 19:12

His troops come on together; they have thrown up siegeworks against me and encamp around my tent.

Job 19:6

know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net around me.

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Job 3:22

who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

Psalm 31:8

and have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

Psalm 88:8

You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

Psalm 88:9

my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call on you, O Lord; I spread out my hands to you.

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;

Lamentations 3:9

he has blocked my ways with hewn stones; he has made my paths crooked.

Hosea 2:6

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.