Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, *and whom God hath hedged in?
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- *Cross-referenceChap. 19.8.
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Job 3:23
Sense 1: Brightness or illumination. Sense 2: A source or opening that gives light. Sense 3: Figuratively, truth, knowledge, revelation, life, or favour contrasted with darkness. Sense 4: To illuminate or kindle. Sense 5: To alight or come upon. Sense 6: Slight, easy, swift, or not heavy.
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Bestowed, granted, delivered, or appointed.
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1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.
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Put, kept, or placed out of sight, knowledge, discovery, understanding, or danger; concealed, secret, covered, or withheld from perception.
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The objective form of who, referring to the person or persons acted upon or related to.
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The one true God.
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1. Shut in or obstructed as by a hedge. 2. Enclosed with a hedge.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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22Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
22Which reioice exceedingly, and are glad when they can finde the graue?
23Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
23 Why is light giuen to a man, whose way is hid, *and whom God hath hedged in?
Selected passage24For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
24For my sighing commeth †before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.