Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Fenced

Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
Psalm 88:8
You cause those who know me to keep their distance; you make me an appalling sight to them. I am trapped and cannot get free.
Lamentations 3:7
(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore, I will soon fence her in with thorns; I will wall her in so that she cannot find her way.

Set

Joshua 24:7
Your fathers cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark, and then drowned them in the sea. You witnessed with your very own eyes what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is like gloomy darkness; they do not know what causes them to stumble.
Isaiah 50:10
Who among you fears the Lord? Who obeys his servant? Whoever walks in deep darkness, without light, should trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.
Jeremiah 13:16
Show the Lord your God the respect that is due him. Do it before he brings the darkness of disaster. Do it before you stumble into distress like a traveler on the mountains at twilight. Do it before he turns the light of deliverance you hope for into the darkness and gloom of exile.
Jeremiah 23:12
So the paths they follow will be dark and slippery. They will stumble and fall headlong. For I will bring disaster on them. A day of reckoning is coming for them." The Lord affirms it!
John 8:12
Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

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