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 sayest thou, O Jacob? and speakest thou, O Israel? 'My way hath been hid from Jehovah, And from my God my judgment passeth over.'

Hedged in

Job 12:14
Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.
Job 19:8
My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
Psalm 31:8
And Thou hast not shut me up, Into the hand of an enemy, Thou hast caused my feet to stand in a broad place.
Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.