Verse 23
Job 3:23
World English Bible
23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
whom God (Elohim) has hedged in?
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְ֭/גֶבֶר אֲשֶׁר דַּרְכּ֣/וֹ נִסְתָּ֑רָה וַ/יָּ֖סֶךְ אֱל֣וֹהַּ בַּעֲדֽ/וֹ
English Translation
To the man whose way is hidden, and God will cover for him.
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Chapter 3 Context
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After this Job opened his mouth, and cursed the day of his birth.
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Job answered:
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“Let the day perish in which I was born,
the night which said, ‘There is a boy conceived.’
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Let that day be darkness.
Don’t let God (Elohim) from above seek for it,
neither let the light shine...
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Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own.
Let a cloud dwell on it.
Let all that m...
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As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it.
Let it not rejoice among the days of the year.
Le...
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Behold, let that night be barren.
Let no joyful voice come therein.
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Let them curse it who curse the day,
who are ready to rouse up leviathan.
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Let the stars of its twilight be dark.
Let it look for light, but have none,
neither let it see the...
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because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb,
nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
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“Why didn’t I die from the womb?
Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?
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Why did the knees receive me?
Or why the breast, that I should nurse?
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For now should I have lain down and been quiet.
I should have slept, then I would have been at rest,...
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with kings and counselors of the earth,
who built up waste places for themselves;
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or with princes who had gold,
who filled their houses with silver:
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or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been,
as infants who never saw light.
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There the wicked cease from troubling.
There the weary are at rest.
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There the prisoners are at ease together.
They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
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The small and the great are there.
The servant is free from his master.
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“Why is light given to him who is in misery,
life to the bitter in soul,
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Who long for death, but it doesn’t come;
and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,
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who rejoice exceedingly,
and are glad, when they can find the grave?
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Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden,
whom God (Elohim) has hedged in?
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For my sighing comes before I eat.
My groanings are poured out like water.
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For the thing which I fear comes on me,
That which I am afraid of comes to me.
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I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest;
but trouble comes.”
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