Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

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

New American Standard Bible

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put darkness on my paths.

King James Version

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

International Standard Version

He blocked my path, so I cannot pass; and he turned out the lights on my pathways.

A Conservative Version

He has walled up my way that I cannot pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has set darkness upon my paths.

Bible in Basic English

My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

He walled up my path and I shall not pass, and he will set darkness upon my beaten paths.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.

NET Bible

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

My way, hath he walled up, that I cannot pass, and, upon my paths, hath he made darkness rest;

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

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

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
He hath fenced up
גּדר 
Gadar 
Usage: 10

my way
ארח 
'orach 
Usage: 59

עבר 
`abar 
over, pass, through, pass by, go, away, pass on,
Usage: 557

and he hath set
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Job's Sixth Speech: A Response To Bildad

7 I cry out: “Violence!” but get no response;
I call for help, but there is no justice.
8 He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;
He has veiled my paths with darkness.
9 He has stripped me of my honor
and removed the crown from my head.



Cross References

Job 3:23

Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,
whom God has hedged in?

Lamentations 3:7

ג GimelHe has walled me in so I cannot escape;
He has weighed me down with chains.

Lamentations 3:9

He has walled in my ways with cut stones;
He has made my paths crooked.

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, this is what I will do:
I will block her way with thorns;
I will enclose her with a wall,
so that she cannot find her paths.

Joshua 24:7

Your fathers cried out to the Lord, so He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea over them, engulfing them. Your own eyes saw what I did to Egypt. After that, you lived in the wilderness a long time.

Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, darkness came.

Psalm 88:8

You have distanced my friends from me;
You have made me repulsive to them.
I am shut in and cannot go out.

Proverbs 4:19

But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom;
they don’t know what makes them stumble.

Isaiah 50:10

Who among you fears the Lord,
listening to the voice of His Servant?
Who among you walks in darkness,
and has no light?
Let him trust in the name of Yahweh;
let him lean on his God.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to the Lord your God
before He brings darkness,
before your feet stumble
on the mountains at dusk.
You wait for light,
but He brings darkest gloom
and makes thick darkness.

Jeremiah 23:12

Therefore, their way will be to them
like slippery paths in the gloom.
They will be driven away and fall down there,
for I will bring disaster on them,
the year of their punishment.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

John 8:12

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

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