Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
Updated King James 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
22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
Cross References
Job 13:27You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly unto all my paths; you set a print upon the heels of my feet.
Job 19:8He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
Psalms 31:8And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.
Psalms 88:9Mine eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands unto you.
Lamentations 3:7He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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 →