Job 19:8
My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
In Context
9He has put off my glory from me, and taken the crown from my head.
Cross References
Joshua 24:7And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.
Job 30:26For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
Proverbs 4:19The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.
Isaiah 59:9For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.
Jeremiah 23:12For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.
Lamentations 3:7He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
Matthew Henry on Job 19:2-8
The Reply of Job to Bildad. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Then Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words? 3 These ten times have ye reproached me: ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me. 4 And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself. 5 If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net. 7 Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not… Read the whole commentary →