Job 3:23

English Standard Version 2016

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Cross References

Job 19:8

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

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;

Isaiah 40:27

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

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.

Lamentations 3:9

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

Psalm 88:8

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

Psalm 31:8

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

Job 19:12

His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

Job 12:14

If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

Job 19:6

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

Job 3:22

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

Job 13:27

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

Psalm 88:9

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