Job 19:8 
ContextNET © | He has blocked 1 my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness 2 over my paths. |
NIV © | He has blocked my way so that I cannot pass; he has shrouded my paths in darkness. |
NASB © | "He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, And He has put darkness on my paths. |
NLT © | God has blocked my way and plunged my path into darkness. |
MSG © | God threw a barricade across my path--I'm stymied; he turned out all the lights--I'm stuck in the dark. |
BBE © | My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark. |
NRSV © | He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths. |
NKJV © | He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; And He has set darkness in my paths. |
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NET © | He has blocked 1 my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness 2 over my paths. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn 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 3:23. Cf. Lam 3:7. 2 tn Some commentators take the word to be חָשַׁךְ (hasak), related to an Arabic word for “thorn hedge.” |