Job 3:23
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
BSB
ASV
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
KJV
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Why is light given “to a man uhose way is hid?” That is, who does not know what way to take, and who sees no escape from the misery that surrounds him. Whom God hath hedged in - See Notes, Job 1:10. The meaning here is, that God had surrounded him as with a high wall or hedge, so that he could not move freely. Job asks with impatience, why light, that is, life, should be given to such a man? Why should he not be permitted to die?
It was Job's folly and weakness to curse his day. We must say of it, This was his infirmity; but good men have sometimes failed in the exercise of those graces which they have been most eminent for, that we may understand that when they are said to be perfect it is meant that they were upright, not that they were sinless.
He saw no way open of deliverance, nor knew he what course to take; his way was hedged up with thorns, that he could not find his path. Even in his former prosperous state troubles were continually feared; so that then he was never easy,
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Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
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You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
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He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
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Psalms 31:8You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
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Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.
How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the LORD had given them up?
He brought me out into the open; He rescued me because He delighted in me.
Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have relieved my distress; show me grace and hear my prayer.
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Isaiah 40:27Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?
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But I said, “I have labored in vain, I have spent My strength in futility and vanity; yet My vindication is with the LORD, and My reward is with My God.”
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