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Job 3:23

Job 3:23 is verse 23 of Job chapter 3, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

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

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

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

Job 3:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible

21 who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,

22 who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

23 Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

24 I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.

25 For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Isaiah 40:27
Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?

Job 12:14
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.

Job 19:8
He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

Psalms 31:8
You have not delivered me to the enemy; You have set my feet in the open.

Lamentations 3:7
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.

Lamentations 3:9
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.

Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her path with thorns; I will enclose her with a wall, so she cannot find her way.