Job 3:23

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

Job 19:8

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

Lamentations 3:7

He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my justice escapes the notice of my God”?

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so that she will not find her paths.

Lamentations 3:9

He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

Psalm 88:8

You have removed my acquaintances far from me; You have made me an abomination to them; I am shut in and I cannot get out;

Psalm 31:8

and 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 together and build up their road against me; they set up camp all around my tent.

Job 12:14

Surely, He tears down, and it cannot be built again; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Job 19:6

know now that God has bent me and has surrounded me with His net.

Job 3:22

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

Job 13:27

You put my feet in the stocks and watch closely all my paths; You draw a line around the soles of my feet.

Psalm 88:9

my eyes grow dim from affliction. Lord, I have called daily upon You; I have stretched out my hands to You.