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Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?
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God's Ironic 'Hedge'
Commentators highlight the tragic irony in Job's words. In Job 1:10, Satan complained that God had 'hedged in' Job with protection. Now, Job uses the same phrase to describe feeling trapped and imprisoned by God's afflictions. What was once a sign of blessing has become, in his eyes, a wall of misery from which he cannot escape.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid? That is, who does not know what way to take, and who sees no escape from the misery that sur…
19th Century
Anglican
Hedged in. —The same expression was used in an opposite sense in Job 1:10.
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid Some of the Jewish writers connect this with (Job 3:22) , thus; …
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Job was like a man who had lost his way, and had no prospect of escape, or hope of better times. But surely he was in a poor state of mind for deat…
13th Century
Catholic
After Job has despised his own life in many ways, he now despises the life of the entire human race as a whole, both for those in prosperity and th…
