Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

Whose way

Bible References

Whose way

Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

Hedged in

Job 12:14
“Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt;
He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
Job 19:8
“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
And He has put darkness on my paths.
Psalm 31:8
And You have not given me over into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a large place.
Lamentations 3:7
He has walled me in so that I cannot go out;
He has made my chain heavy.
Hosea 2:6
“Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns,
And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths.