Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
New American Standard Bible
And whom
King James Version
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Holman Bible
whom God has hedged in?
International Standard Version
To the formerly successful man who lost his way in life, and God fenced him in?
A Conservative Version
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
American Standard Version
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
Bible in Basic English
To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
Darby Translation
To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?
Julia Smith Translation
To a man whose way was hid, and God will hedge about him?
King James 2000
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Why does he give light] to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in [all] around?
Modern King James verseion
To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him.
NET Bible
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
New Heart English Bible
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
The Emphasized Bible
To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?
Webster
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
World English Bible
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Youngs Literal Translation
To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?
Themes
Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Might Die
22
Who rejoice exceedingly,
And rejoice when they find the grave?
“Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
“For my groaning comes at the sight of my food,
And my cries [of despair] are poured out like water.
Names
Cross References
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
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.