Job 3:23
To a man whose way has been hidden, || And whom God shuts up?
Literal Standard 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
22Who are glad—to joy, || They rejoice when they find a grave.
24For before my food, my sighing comes, || And my roarings [are] poured out as waters.
Cross References
Job 13:27And you put my feet in the stocks, || And observe all my paths—You set a print on the roots of my feet,
Job 19:8He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, || And He places darkness on my paths.
Psalms 31:8And You have not shut me up, || Into the hand of an enemy, || You have caused my feet to stand in a broad place.
Psalms 88:9My eye has grieved because of affliction, || I called You, O YHWH, all the day, || I have spread out my hands to You.
Lamentations 3:7He has hedged me in, and I do not go out, || He has made heavy my chain.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I am hedging up your way with thorns, || And I have made a wall for her, || And her paths she does not find.
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 →