Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

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.

Holman Bible

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

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.

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 "Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice. 8 He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, and has set darkness in my paths. 9 He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

Cross References

Job 3:23

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

Lamentations 3:9

He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

Hosea 2:6

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can't find her way.

Joshua 24:7

When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.

Job 30:26

When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

Psalm 88:8

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can't escape.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

Isaiah 50:10

Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.

Jeremiah 13:16

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.

Jeremiah 23:12

Therefore their way shall be to them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation, says Yahweh.

John 8:12

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, "I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life."

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