Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from 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 King James verseion
To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about 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 and search for it more than for treasure. Which also would be exceedingly glad, and rejoice if they found their grave. 23 That should be joy to the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth back from him. 24 For my sighs come before I eat, and my roarings fall out like flowing water.
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Cross References
Job 19:8
"He hath hedged up my way, that I cannot pass; he hath set darkness in my gate.
Lamentations 3:7
{Gimel} He hath so hedged me in, that I cannot get out; and hath laid heavy links upon me.
Isaiah 40:27
"How may then Jacob think, or how may Israel say, 'My ways are hid from the LORD, and my God knoweth not of my judgments.'
Job 12:14
If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?
Job 19:6
know this then: that it is God which hath handled me so violently, and hath compassed me about with his net.
Job 19:12
His men of war came together, which made their way over me, and besieged my dwelling round about.
Psalm 31:8
and hast shut me up into the hand of the enemy; but hast set my feet in a large room.
Psalm 88:8
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and made me to be abhorred of them. I am so fast in prison that I cannot get forth.
Lamentations 3:9
He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked.
Hosea 2:6
"But I will hedge her way with thorns, and stop it, that she shall not find her footsteps: