Verse List for JOB 3:23

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B I ◄ ← Job 3:23 ↓ → ► ═ ©

Text critical issues=minor/spelling Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Iyyov (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) Why search for a path that’s hidden ⇔  when God has hedged them in?

OET-LV To_a _man whom its_road/course it _is _hidden and_he _has _made _inaccessible god behind_him.

ULT to a man whose way is hidden, ⇔  and God has hedged around him?

UST God should not give life to people if he is going to keep them from knowing what to do ⇔  or from understanding what is really happening to them!

BSB & MSB Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, ⇔  whom God has hedged in?

OEB No OEB JOB book available

WEBBE & WMBB Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, ⇔  whom God has hedged in?

NET Why is light given to a man ⇔ whose way is hidden, ⇔ and whom God has hedged in?

LSV To a man whose way has been hidden,
And whom God shuts up?

FBV Why is light given to someone who doesn't know where they're going, someone God has fenced in?[fn]

T4T Those who do not know where they are eventually going when they die [RHQ], ⇔  people whom God has forced [MET] to continue to live in misery, ⇔  ◄it is not right that they continue to live./why do they continue to live?► [RHQ]

LEB • Why does he to a man whose way is hidden,
• and God has fenced him in all around?

BBE To a man whose way is veiled, and who is shut in by God?

Moff Why does God give fight to a man at his wits’ end, ⇔  a man he has hemmed in?

JPS To a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

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

DRA To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?

YLT To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

Drby To the man whose way is hidden, and whom [fn]God hath hedged in?

RV Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
(Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath/has hedged in?)

SLT To a man whose way was hid, and God will hedge about him?

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

KJB-1769 Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
(Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath/has hedged in?)

KJB-1611 Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps From whom their endes are hyd, and consealed by God?
(From whom their ends are hid, and consealed by God?)

Gnva Why is the light giuen to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
(Why is the light given to the man whose way is hid, and whom God hath/has hedged in?)

Cvdl To the man whose waye is hyd, which God kepeth backe from him.
(To the man whose way is hid, which God keepeth/keeps back from him.)

Wycl Whi is liyt youun to a man, whos weie is hid, and God hath cumpassid hym with derknessis?
(Why is light given to a man, whose way is hid, and God hath/has compassed/surrounded him with darkness?)

Luth und dem Manne, des Weg verborgen ist, und GOtt vor ihm denselben bedecket?
(and to_him man, the way/path/road hidden/concealed is, and God before/in_front_of him the_same covered?)

ClVg viro cujus abscondita est via et circumdedit eum Deus tenebris?[fn]
(to_the_man whose hidden it_is way/road and surrounded him God darkness?)

UHB לְ֭⁠גֶבֶר אֲשֶׁר־דַּרְכּ֣⁠וֹ נִסְתָּ֑רָה וַ⁠יָּ֖סֶךְ אֱל֣וֹהַּ בַּעֲדֽ⁠וֹ׃ ‡

BrLXX Θάνατος ἀνδρὶ ἀνάπαυμα, συνέκλεισεν γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς κατʼ αὐτοῦ.

BrTr Death is rest to such a man, for God has hedged him in.