Job 3:23
New International Version
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

New Living Translation
Why is life given to those with no future, those God has surrounded with difficulties?

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

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

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

New King James Version
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?

New American Standard Bible
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has shut off?

NASB 1995
“Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?

NASB 1977
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?

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

Amplified Bible
Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden, And whom God has hedged in?

Christian Standard Bible
Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Why is life given to a man whose path is hidden, 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?

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
To a man whose way is hidden and God descends upon him?

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in.

Contemporary English Version
Why do I go on living when God has me surrounded, and I can't see the road?

Douay-Rheims Bible
To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Why give light to those whose paths have been hidden, to those whom God has fenced in?

Good News Translation
God keeps their future hidden and hems them in on every side.

International Standard Version
To the formerly successful man who lost his way in life, and God fenced him in?

JPS Tanakh 1917
To a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?

Literal Standard Version
To a man whose way has been hidden, | And whom God shuts up?

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

New American Bible
A man whose path is hidden from him, one whom God has hemmed in!

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

New Revised Standard Version
Why is light given to one who cannot see the way, whom God has fenced in?

New Heart English Bible
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?

Webster's Bible Translation
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?

Young's Literal Translation
To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

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Context
Job Laments His Birth
22who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave? 23Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? 24I sigh when food is put before me, and my groans pour out like water.…

Cross References
Job 3:22
who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?

Job 19:6
then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

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

Psalm 88:8
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

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


Treasury of Scripture

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

whose way.

Isaiah 40:27
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

hedged in.

Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Psalm 31:8
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

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Job 3
1. Job curses the day and services of his birth.
13. The ease of death.
20. He complains of life, because of his anguish.














(23) Hedged in.--The same expression was used in an opposite sense in Job 1:10.

Verse 23. - Why is light given to a man whose way is hid? "Obscured," that is, "darkened," "placed under a cloud" (comp. ver. 20, where the sentiment is nearly the same). And whom God hath hedged in. Not in the way of protection, as in Job 1:10, but of obstruction and confinement: (comp. Job 19:8 and Hosea 2:6). Job feels himself confined, imprisoned, blocked in. He can neither see the path which he ought to pursue nor take steps in any direction.

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Hebrew
Why is life given to a man
לְ֭גֶבֶר (lə·ḡe·ḇer)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply

whose
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

way
דַּרְכּ֣וֹ (dar·kōw)
Noun - common singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

is hidden,
נִסְתָּ֑רָה (nis·tā·rāh)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5641: To hide, conceal

whom God
אֱל֣וֹהַּ (’ĕ·lō·w·ah)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 433: God -- a deity, the Deity

has hedged in?
וַיָּ֖סֶךְ (way·yā·seḵ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5526: To entwine as a, screen, to fence in, cover over, protect


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