Job 3:23

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, 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 put heavy chains on me;

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hid 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 hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.

Psalm 88:8

Thou hast caused my companions to shun me; thou hast made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

Psalm 31:8

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

Job 19:12

His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about 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

Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.

Psalm 88:9

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