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, O Jacob, do you say, and declare, 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 set darkness upon my paths.
Psalm 31:8

And You have not given me into the hand of the enemy;
You have set my feet in a broad place.
Lamentations 3:7

He walled me in so that I cannot get out;
He has weighted down my chain.
Hosea 2:6

“Therefore, behold, I [the Lord God] will hedge up her way with thorns;
And I will build a wall against her [shutting off her way] so that she cannot find her paths.