Job 3:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 ¶ He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
  • Isa 40:27 : 27 ¶ Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 ¶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
  • Job 12:14 : 14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
  • Job 19:6 : 6 Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.
  • Job 19:12 : 12 His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: [I am] shut up, and I cannot come forth.

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