Job 19:8

In 11 translations

BSB

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

KJV

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

WEB

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

ASV

He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.

LSV

He hedged up my way, and I do not pass over, || And He places darkness on my paths.

YLT

My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

DBY

He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

DRC

He hath hedged in my path round about, and I cannot pass, and in my way he hath set darkness.

GNV

Hee hath hedged vp my way that I cannot passe, and he hath set darkenesse in my paths.

JPS

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and hath set darkness in my paths.

LXXE

I am fenced round about, and can by no means escape: he has set darkness before my face.

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Original-language editions

WLC

אָרְחִ֣י גָ֭דַר וְלֹ֣א אֶעֱב֑וֹר וְעַ֥ל נְ֝תִיבוֹתַ֗י חֹ֣שֶׁךְ יָשִֽׂים׃

LXX-Br

Κύκλῳ περιῳκοδόμημαι, καὶ οὐ μὴ διαβῶ· ἐπὶ πρόσωπόν μου σκότος ἔθετο.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
• Job 3:23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
• Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
• Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
• Lamentations 3:9He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
• Hosea 2:6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.
• Jeremiah 23:12“Therefore their path will become slick; they will be driven away into the darkness and fall into it. For I will bring disaster upon them in the year of their punishment,” declares the LORD.
• John 8:12Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
• Jeremiah 13:16Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.
• Joshua 24:7So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness…
• Isaiah 50:10Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.

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