Job 3:23
Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
In Context
22and would be very joyful if they should gain it?
24For my groaning comes before my food, and I weep being beset with terror.
Cross References
Job 13:27And you have placed my foot in the stocks; and you have watched all my works, and have penetrated my heels.
Job 19:8I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.
Psalms 31:8I will instruct you and guide you in this way wherein you shall go: I will fix my eyes upon you. 1
Psalms 88:9You rule the power of the sea; and you calm the tumult of its waves. 1
Lamentations 3:7He has builded against me, and I can’t come forth: he has made my brazen chain heavy.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I hedge up her way with thorns, and I will stop the ways, and she shall not find her path.
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 →