Job 19:8

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

⁷ Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.

⁹ He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

¹⁰ He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.
KJV: He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
WEB: He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.
ASV: He hath walled up my way that I cannot pass, And hath set darkness in my paths.
DARBY: He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
BLB: My way He has walled off, and I cannot pass over; and upon my paths He has set darkness.

ÅB: Min vei har han stengt, så jeg ikke kommer fram, og over mine stier legger han mørke.
OTB: Han har blokkert min vei så jeg ikke kan passere,
og Han har hyllet mine veier i mørke.
B1930: Min vei har han stengt, så jeg ikke kommer frem, og over mine stier legger han mørke.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Job 3:23
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
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Lamentations 3:7
He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.
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Psalms 88:8
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
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Lamentations 3:9
He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
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Proverbs 4:19
But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
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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.
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Isaiah 50:10
Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.
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John 8:12
Once again, Jesus spoke to the people and said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows Me will never walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
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