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Job 19:8

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19:8He has blocked21 my way so I cannot pass,

and has set darkness22 over my paths.

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Footnotes

  1. 21 The verb גָּדַר (gadar) means “to wall up; to fence up; to block.” God has blocked Job’s way so that he cannot get through. See the note on . Cf. Lam 3:7.
  2. 22 Some commentators take the word to be חָשַׁךְ (hasak), related to an Arabic word for “thorn hedge.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,

and he has set darkness upon my paths.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass;

he has shrouded my paths in darkness.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass through;

he has veiled my paths with darkness.

NLTNew Living Translation

God has blocked my way so I cannot move.

He has plunged my path into darkness.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass;

and he has set darkness upon my paths.

KJV 1900King James Version

He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass,

And he hath set darkness in my paths.