23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
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?
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
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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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 20-26)Job, finding it to no purpose to wish either that he had not been born or had died as soon as he was born, here complains that his life was now continued and not cut off. When men are set on quarrelling there is no end of it; the corrupt heart will carry on the humour. Having cursed the day of his birth, here he courts the day of his death. The beginning of this strife and impatience is as the let…
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