Job 3:23

²¹ Which long for death, but it cometh not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

²² Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

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

²⁴ For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

²⁵ For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
KJV: Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
WEB: Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
ASV: [Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
DARBY: To the man whose way is hidden, and whom God hath hedged in?
BLB: To a man [for] whom his path is hidden, and God has hedged around him?

ÅB: til den mann hvis vei er skjult for ham, og som Gud har stengt for på alle kanter?
OTB: Hvorfor gis lys til en mann hvis vei er skjult,
som Gud har omringet?
B1930: til den mann hvis vei er skjult for ham, og som Gud har stengt for på alle kanter?

Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
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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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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?
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Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
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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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Job 19:12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
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Psalms 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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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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