Job 3:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 19:8 : 8 My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
  • Lam 3:7 : 7 He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
  • Isa 40:27 : 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? `My way hath been hid from Jehovah, And from my God my judgment passeth over.'
  • Lam 3:9 : 9 He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
  • Hos 2:6 : 6 Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.
  • Job 12:14 : 14 Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.
  • Job 19:6 : 6 Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
  • Job 19:12 : 12 Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
  • Ps 31:8 : 8 And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.
  • Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.

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