Job 3:23


“Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?

Job 19:8


“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.

Lamentations 3:7


He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.

Isaiah 40:27


Why, O Jacob, do you say, and declare, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

Job 12:14


“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

Job 19:6


Know then that God has wronged me and overthrown me
And has closed His net around me.

Job 19:12


“His troops come together
And build up their way and siege works against me
And camp around my tent.

Psalm 31:8


And You have not given me into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a broad place.

Psalm 88:8


You have put my friends far from me;
You have made me an object of loathing to them.
I am shut up and I cannot go out.

Lamentations 3:9


He has blocked my ways with cut stone;
He has made my paths crooked.

Hosea 2:6


“Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way with thorns;
And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Whose way

Bible References

Whose way

Isaiah 40:27

Why, O Jacob, do you say, and declare, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

Hedged in

Job 12:14

“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
Job 19:8

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.
Psalm 31:8

And You have not given me into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a broad place.
Lamentations 3:7

He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.
Hosea 2:6

“Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way with thorns;
And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.