Job 3:23

Geneva Bible (1560)

Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.
  • Isa 40:27 : 27 Why sayest thou, O Iaakob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lorde, and my iudgement is passed ouer of my God?
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore beholde, I will stoope thy way with thornes, and make an hedge, that shee shall not finde her pathes.
  • Job 12:14 : 14 Beholde, he will breake downe, and it can not be built: he shutteth a man vp, and he can not be loosed.
  • Job 19:6 : 6 Know nowe, that God hath ouerthrowen me, and hath compassed me with his net.
  • Job 19:12 : 12 His armies came together, & made their way vpon me, and camped about my tabernacle.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 And thou hast not shut me vp in the hand of the enemie, but hast set my feete at large.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance farre from me, and made mee to be abhorred of them: I am shut vp, and cannot get foorth.

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    20Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?

    21Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:

    22Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.

  • Job 38:19-20
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    19Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,

    20That thou shouldest receiue it in the boundes thereof, and that thou shouldest knowe the paths to the house thereof?

  • Job 19:8
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    8Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.

  • Job 23:17
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    17For I am not cut off in darknesse, but he hath hid the darkenesse from my face.

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1I am the man, that hath seene affliction in the rod of his indignation.

    2He hath ledde mee, and brought me into darkenes, but not to light.

  • Lam 3:6-7
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    6He hath set me in darke places, as they that be dead for euer.

    7He hath hedged about mee, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chaines heauy.

  • Job 29:3
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    3When his light shined vpon mine head: and when by his light I walked thorowe the darkenesse,

  • Lam 3:9
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    9He hath stopped vp my wayes with hewen stone, and turned away my paths.

  • Job 24:1
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    1Howe should not the times be hid from the Almightie, seeing that they which knowe him, see not his dayes?

  • Job 38:24
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    24By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the East winde vpon the earth?

  • Job 23:9
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    9If to the North where he worketh, yet I cannot see him: he wil hide himselfe in the South, and I cannot beholde him.

  • Job 15:23
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    23He wandreth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.

  • Job 3:3-4
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    3Let the day perish, wherein I was borne, and the night when it was sayde, There is a man childe conceiued.

    4Let that day bee darkenesse, let not God regarde it from aboue, neyther let the light shine vpon it,

  • Job 42:3
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    3Who is hee that hideth counsell without knowledge? therefore haue I spoken that I vnderstood not, euen things too wonderfull for me, and which I knew not.

  • Job 13:24
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    24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemie?

  • Job 3:9-10
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    9Let the starres of that twilight be dimme through darkenesse of it: let it looke for light, but haue none: neither let it see the dawning of the day,

    10Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes.

  • Job 14:3
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    3And yet thou openest thine eyes vpon such one, and causest me to enter into iudgement with thee.

  • Job 3:24
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    24For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the water.

  • Job 25:3
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    3Is there any nomber in his armies? and vpon whom shall not his light arise?

  • Job 22:11
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    11Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, & abundance of waters shal couer thee.

  • Job 3:16
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    16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light shalbe darke in his dwelling, and his candle shalbe put out with him.

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    13Is it not so, that there is in me no helpe? and that strength is taken from me?

  • Job 11:10
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    10If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?

  • Job 37:19-20
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    19Tell vs what we shall say vnto him: for we can not dispose our matter because of darknes.

    20Shall it be told him when I speake? Or shall man speake when he shalbe destroyed?

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    3Thinkest thou it good to oppresse me, and to cast off the labour of thine handes, and to fauour the counsel of the wicked?

  • Job 14:13
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    4Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

  • Lam 3:39
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    39Wherefore then is the liuing man sorowfull? man suffreth for his sinne.

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    9Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doeth iustice come neere vnto vs: we waite for light, but loe, it is darkenesse: for brightnesse, but we walke in darkenesse.

  • Isa 40:27
    71%

    27Why sayest thou, O Iaakob, and speakest O Israel, My way is hid from the Lorde, and my iudgement is passed ouer of my God?

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    12But where is wisdome found? and where is the place of vnderstanding?

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    28He will deliuer his soule from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

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    9Will God heare his cry, when trouble commeth vpon him?

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    20Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,

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    18Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me!

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    2Who is this that darkeneth the counsell by wordes without knowledge?

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    12Why doeth thine heart take thee away, and what doe thine eyes meane,

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    13These are they, that abhorre the light: they know not the wayes thereof, nor continue in the paths thereof.

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    23Though men giue him assurance to be in safetie, yet his eyes are vpon their wayes.