Job 3:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?

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  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.
  • Isa 40:27 : 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, so she shall not find her paths.
  • Job 12:14 : 14 Behold, He breaks down, and it cannot be rebuilt: He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
  • Job 19:6 : 6 Know now that God has overthrown me and has surrounded me with His net.
  • Job 19:12 : 12 His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and encamp around my tent.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a wide place.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 You have put my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them. I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

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    20 Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul;

    21 Who long for death, but it does not come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

    22 Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

  • Job 38:19-20
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    19 Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is its place,

    20 That you may take it to its boundary, and that you may discern the paths to its home?

  • Job 19:8
    76%

    8 He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 23:17
    75%

    17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, nor has he covered the darkness from my face.

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    75%

    1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.

    2 He has led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  • Lam 3:6-7
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    75%

    6 He has set me in dark places, like those long dead.

    7 He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

  • Job 29:3
    74%

    3 When His lamp shone upon my head, and by His light I walked through darkness;

  • Lam 3:9
    74%

    9 He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.

  • Job 24:1
    73%

    1 Why, since times are not hidden from the Almighty, do those who know Him not see His days?

  • Job 38:24
    73%

    24 By what way is the light distributed, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?

  • Job 23:9
    73%

    9 On the left hand where he works, but I cannot behold him; he hides himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him.

  • Job 15:23
    73%

    23 He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • Job 3:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

    4 Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, nor let the light shine upon it.

  • Job 42:3
    72%

    3 Who is he who hides counsel without knowledge? Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

  • Job 13:24
    72%

    24 Why do you hide your face, and hold me as your enemy?

  • Job 3:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark; let it look for light, but have none; nor let it see the breaking of dawn:

    10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes.

  • Job 14:3
    72%

    3 And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • Job 3:24
    72%

    24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

  • Job 25:3
    72%

    3 Is there any number to His armies? And upon whom does not His light rise?

  • Job 22:11
    72%

    11 Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you.

  • Job 3:16
    71%

    16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have existed; like infants who never saw light.

  • Job 18:6
    71%

    6 The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Job 6:13
    71%

    13 Is not my help within me? And is wisdom driven quite from me?

  • Job 11:10
    71%

    10 If He passes by, and imprisons, or gathers together, then who can stop Him?

  • Job 37:19-20
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    71%

    19 Teach us what we shall say to him, for we cannot arrange our speech because of darkness.

    20 Shall it be told him that I speak? If a man speaks, surely he shall be swallowed up.

  • Job 10:3
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    3 Is it good to You that You should oppress, that You should despise the work of Your hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

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    71%

    13 Oh that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would appoint me a set time, and remember me!

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    4 As for me, is my complaint to a man? And if it were, why should my spirit not be troubled?

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    71%

    39 Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

  • Isa 59:9
    71%

    9 Therefore justice is far from us, nor does righteousness overtake us: we wait for light, but see obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

  • Isa 40:27
    71%

    27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

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    70%

    12 But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?

  • Job 33:28
    70%

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

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    70%

    30 To bring back his soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living.

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    70%

    9 Will God hear his cry when trouble comes upon him?

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    70%

    20 Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 10:18
    70%

    18 Why then have You brought me forth out of the womb? Oh, that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!

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    29 When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble? And when He hides His face, who then can behold Him? Whether it be done against a nation or against a man only.

  • Job 38:2
    70%

    2 Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

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    70%

    12 Why does your heart carry you away, and what do your eyes wink at,

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    70%

    13 They are among those who rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

  • Job 24:23
    70%

    23 Though it be given him to be in safety, on which he rests, yet his eyes are on their ways.

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