Job 3:23
Why is light given to someone who doesn't know where they're going, someone God has fenced in?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
In Context
22They're so incredibly happy when they reach the grave!
24My groans are the bread I eat; my raging tears are the water I drink.
Cross References
Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks. You keep an eye on every step I take. You even inspect my footprints!
Job 19:8God has walled me in so I can't escape; he has plunged my path into darkness.
Psalms 31:8You haven't handed me over to my enemies; you have set me free.
Psalms 88:9I've cried my eyes out begging you every day for your help, Lord, holding out my hands to you.
Lamentations 3:7He has built a wall around me so I can't escape; he has bound me with heavy chains.
Hosea 2:6That is why I am going to block her path with thorn bushes, and build a stone wall to stop her so she won't find her way.
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 →