Job Laments His Birth
Job 3:23
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
- KJV
- Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
- WEB
- Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
- ASV
- Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
- LSV
- To a man whose way has been hidden, || And whom God shuts up?
- YLT
- To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?
- DBY
- To the man whose way is hidden, and whom God hath hedged in?Eloah
- DRC
- To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
- GNV
- Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
- JPS
- To a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
- LXXE
- Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- לְ֭גֶבֶר אֲשֶׁר־דַּרְכּ֣וֹ נִסְתָּ֑רָה וַיָּ֖סֶךְ אֱל֣וֹהַּ בַּעֲדֽוֹ׃
- LXX-Br
- Θάνατος ἀνδρὶ ἀνάπαυμα, συνέκλεισεν γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς κατʼ αὐτοῦ.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
- Lamentations 3:7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
- 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”?
- Job 19:12His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
- Psalms 31:8You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.
- 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.
- Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
- Psalms 88:8You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- Job 19:6then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.
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