Job 3:23

New English Translation

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

Cross References

Job 12:14

If he tears down, it cannot be rebuilt; if he imprisons a person, there is no escape.

Job 13:27

And you put my feet in the stocks and you watch all my movements; you put marks on the soles of my feet.

Job 19:12

His troops advance together; they throw up a siege ramp against me, and they camp around my tent.

Job 19:6

know then that God has wronged me and encircled me with his net.

Job 19:8

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

Job 3:22

who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

Psalm 31:8

You do not deliver me over to the power of the enemy; you enable me to stand in a wide open place.

Psalm 88:8

You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.

Psalm 88:9

My eyes grow weak because of oppression. I call out to you, O Lord, all day long; I spread out my hands in prayer to you.

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say, Jacob, Why do you say, Israel, “The Lord is not aware of what is happening to me, My God is not concerned with my vindication”?

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

Lamentations 3:9

He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable. ד (Dalet)

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.