Job 19:8
My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
Young's Literal Translation
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
7Lo, I cry out — violence, and am not answered, I cry aloud, and there is no judgment.
9Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.
Cross References
Joshua 24:7and they cry unto Jehovah, and He setteth thick darkness between you and the Egyptians, and bringeth on them the sea, and covereth them, and your eyes see that which I have done in Egypt; and ye dwell in a wilderness many days.
Job 30:26When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness, They have not known at what they stumble.
Isaiah 59:9Therefore hath judgment been far from us, And righteousness reacheth us not, We wait for light, and lo, darkness, For brightness — in thick darkness we go,
Jeremiah 23:12Therefore is their way to them as slippery places, Into thick darkness they are driven, And they have fallen in it, For I bring in against them evil, The year of their inspection, An affirmation of Jehovah.
Lamentations 3:7He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
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 →