Job 3:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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?

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

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 markest all my paths; Thou drawest thee a line about the soles of my feet:

Job 19:12

His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

Job 19:6

Know now that God hath subverted me in my cause, And hath compassed me with his net.

Job 19:8

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, And 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 thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.

Psalm 88:8

Thou hast put 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 wasteth away by reason of affliction: I have called daily upon thee, O LORD, I have spread forth 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 judgement is passed away from my God?

Lamentations 3:7

He hath fenced me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

Lamentations 3:9

He hath fenced up my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

Hosea 2:6

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