Job 19:8
He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, || And He places darkness on my paths.
Literal Standard Version
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 cry out—violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
9He has stripped my honor from off me, || And He turns the crown from my head.
Cross References
Joshua 24:7and they cry to YHWH, and He sets thick darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brings the sea over him, and covers them, and your eyes see that which I have done in Egypt; and you dwell in a wilderness [for] many days.
Job 30:26When I expected good, then comes evil, || And I wait for light, and darkness comes.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, || They have not known at what they stumble.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore judgment has been far from us, || And righteousness does not reach us, || We wait for light, and behold, darkness, || For brightness—in thick darkness we go,
Jeremiah 23:12“Therefore their way is as slippery places to them, || They are driven into thick darkness, || And they have fallen in it, || For I bring in calamity against them, || The year of their inspection,” || A declaration of YHWH.
Lamentations 3:7He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, || He has made heavy 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 →