Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?
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.
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?
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 -- unto joy, They rejoice when they find a grave. 23 To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up? 24 For before my food, my sighing cometh, And poured out as waters are my roarings.
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Cross References
Job 19:8
My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.
Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.
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.'
Job 12:14
Lo, He breaketh down, and it is not built up, He shutteth against a man, And it is not opened.
Job 19:6
Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,
Job 19:12
Come in do His troops together, And they raise up against me their way, And encamp round about my tent.
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.
Psalm 88:8
Thou hast put mine acquaintance far from me, Thou hast made me an abomination to them, Shut up -- I go not forth.
Lamentations 3:9
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
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.