Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?
New American Standard Bible
And whom
King James Version
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Holman Bible
whom God has hedged in?
International Standard Version
To the formerly successful man who lost his way in life, and God fenced him in?
A Conservative Version
[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
American Standard Version
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
Amplified
“Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
Darby Translation
To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?
Julia Smith Translation
To a man whose way was hid, and God will hedge about him?
King James 2000
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Why does he give light] to a man whose way is hidden, and God has fenced him in [all] around?
Modern King James verseion
To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him.
NET Bible
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
New Heart English Bible
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
The Emphasized Bible
To a man, whose way is concealed, And GOD hath straitly enclosed him?
Webster
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
World English Bible
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
Youngs Literal Translation
To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?
Themes
Hedges » Illustrative » Of numerous afflictions
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 3:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Wishes He Might Die
22 Who are glad with great joy, and full of delight when they come to their last resting-place; 23 To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God? 24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.
Names
Cross References
Job 19:8
My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.
Lamentations 3:7
He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.
Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?
Job 12:14
Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.
Job 19:6
Be certain that it is God who has done me wrong, and has taken me in his net.
Job 19:12
His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.
Psalm 31:8
And you have not given me into the hand of my hater; you have put my feet in a wide place.
Psalm 88:8
You have sent my friends far away from me; you have made me a disgusting thing in their eyes: I am shut up, and not able to come out.
Lamentations 3:9
He has put up a wall of cut stones about my ways, he has made my roads twisted.
Hosea 2:6
For this cause I will put thorns in her road, building up a wall round her so that she may not go on her way.