Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden,
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?

Bible in Basic English

To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

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?

Topics

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Why is light given to a man
גּבר 
Geber 
Usage: 65

דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

is hid
סתר 
Cathar 
Usage: 81

and whom God
אלהּ אלוהּ 
'elowahh 
God, god
Usage: 57

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Job Wishes He Might Die

22 who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave? 23 “Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
And whom God has hedged in?
24 For my sighing comes instead of my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water.

Cross References

Job 19:8

He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.

Lamentations 3:7

He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy;

Isaiah 40:27

Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?

Job 12:14

If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.

Job 19:6

know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.

Job 19:12

His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

Psalm 31:8

and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

Psalm 88:8

You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;

Lamentations 3:9

he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.

Hosea 2:6

Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.

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