Job 3:23
Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
In Context
22Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.
24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.
Cross References
Job 13:27Thou puttest my feete also in the stocks, and lookest narrowly vnto all my pathes, and makest the print thereof in ye heeles of my feet.
Job 19:8Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
Psalms 31:8And thou hast not shut me vp in the hand of the enemie, but hast set my feete at large.
Psalms 88:9Mine eye is sorowfull through mine affliction: Lord, I call dayly vpon thee: I stretch out mine hands vnto thee.
Lamentations 3:7He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.
Hosea 2:6Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes.
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 →