Job 19:8
I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.
Brenton Septuagint
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
7Behold, I laugh at reproach; I will not speak: or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment.
9And he has stripped me of my glory, and has taken the crown from my head.
Cross References
Joshua 24:7And we cried aloud to the Lord; and he + 24:7 Gr. gave.put a cloud and darkness between us and the Egyptians, and he brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt; and ye were in the wilderness many days.
Job 30:26But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
Proverbs 4:19But the ways of the ungodly are dark; they know not how they stumble.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore has judgment departed from them, and righteousness shall not overtake them: while they waited for light, darkness came upon them; while they waited for brightness, they walked in perplexity.
Jeremiah 23:12Therefore let their way be to them slippery and dark: and they shall be tripped up and fall in it: for I will bring evils upon them, in the year of their visitation.
Lamentations 3:7He has builded against me, and I cannot come forth: he has made my brazen chain heavy.
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 →