Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.
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?
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 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 They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they can find the grave. 23 To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him. 24 For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like the waters.
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Cross References
Job 19:8
He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
Lamentations 3:7
He has set a fence around me and I cannot go out; He has made my bronze chain heavy.
Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from Jehovah and my judgment has passed over from my God?
Job 12:14
Behold, He breaks down, and it can not be built up again; He shuts up a man, and no one opens.
Job 19:6
know now that God has overthrown me, and His net has closed on me.
Job 19:12
His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and camp around my tent.
Psalm 31:8
and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.
Psalm 88:8
You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out.
Lamentations 3:9
He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are crooked.
Hosea 2:6
Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.