Job 19:8

⁶ Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

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

⁹ He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

¹⁰ He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed 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 light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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Psalms 88:8
Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
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Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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Hosea 2:6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
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Isaiah 50:10
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his God.
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John 8:12
Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
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