Job 19:8
I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: 1 He has set darkness before my face. 1
Updated 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: 1 Or I will cry out, but there is nowhere judgment. 1
9And he has stripped me of my glory, 1 And has taken the crown from my head. 1
Cross References
Joshua 24:7And we cried aloud to the Lord; and he 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, 1 Behold, days of evils came the more upon me. 1
Proverbs 4:19But the ways of the ungodly are dark; 1 They know not how they stumble. 1
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 built against me, and I cannot come forth: 1 He has made my brazen chain heavy. 1
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 →