Job 3:23

Job chapter 3 · verse 23 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Why is light givento a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Why is light givento a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

Context

v.22Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

v.23This passage

v.24For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 12:14

    Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

  • Job 19:12

    His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

  • Psalms 88:8

    Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me; Thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.

  • Lamentations 3:7

    He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

  • Isaiah 40:27

    Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice due to me is passed away from my God?

  • Psalms 31:8

    And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.