Job 3:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
  • Isa 40:27 : 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.
  • Job 12:14 : 14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.
  • Job 19:6 : 6 Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
  • Job 19:12 : 12 His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.

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