Job 3:23
To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
In Context
22And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave.
24Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:
Cross References
Job 13:27Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:
Job 19:8He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.
Psalms 31:8I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. For thou best regarded my humility, thou hast saved my soul out of distresses.
Psalms 88:9Thou hast put away my acquaintance far from me: they have set me an abomination to themselves. I was delivered up, and came not forth:
Lamentations 3:7Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.
Hosea 2:6Wherefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will stop it up with a wall, and she shall not find her paths.
Matthew Henry on Job 3:21-26
20 Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; 21 Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; 22 Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in? 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters. 25 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.… Read the whole commentary →