Job 19:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 19:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Lamentations 3:7
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
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.
Proverbs 4:19
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-22)

Bildad had very disingenuously perverted Job’s complaints by making them the description of the miserable condition of a wicked man; and yet he repeats them here, to move their pity, and to work upon their good nature, if they had any left in them. I. He complains of the tokens of God’s displeasure which he was under, and which infused the wormwood and gall into the affliction and misery. How dole…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. Image from a benighted traveller.