Job 3:23

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.
  • Isa 40:27 : 27 Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.
  • Job 12:14 : 14 Behold, he breaks down, and it can't be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
  • Job 19:6 : 6 know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.
  • Job 19:12 : 12 His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

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

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  • Job 38:19-20
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    8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

  • Job 23:17
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    17 Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

  • Lam 3:1-2
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    1 I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

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  • Lam 3:6-7
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    6 He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

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  • Job 29:3
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    3 when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

  • Lam 3:9
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    9 He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

  • Job 24:1
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    1 "Why aren't times laid up by the Almighty? Why don't those who know him see his days?

  • Job 38:24
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    24 By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth?

  • Job 23:9
    73%

    9 He works to the north, but I can't see him. He turns south, but I can't catch a glimpse of him.

  • Job 15:23
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    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
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    73%

    3 "Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

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  • Job 42:3
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    3 You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?' therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn't know.

  • Job 13:24
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    24 Why hide you your face, and hold me for your enemy?

  • Job 3:9-10
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    9 Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

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  • Job 14:3
    72%

    3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Job 3:24
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    24 For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.

  • Job 25:3
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    3 Can his armies be counted? On whom does his light not arise?

  • Job 22:11
    72%

    11 or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

  • Job 3:16
    71%

    16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

  • Job 18:6
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    6 The light shall be dark in his tent. His lamp above him shall be put out.

  • Job 6:13
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  • Job 11:10
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  • Job 37:19-20
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    70%

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    70%

    28 He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.'

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    70%

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

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