Job 19:8

NET ©

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.

KJV
He hath fenced up
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my way
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that I cannot pass
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and he hath set
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darkness
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in my paths
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HEBREW
Myvy
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Ksx
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lew
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rwbea
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alw
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rdg
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yxra (19:8)
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LXXM
kuklw
 
N-DSM
periwkodomhmai
 
V-RPI-1S
kai
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CONJ
ou
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ADV
mh
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ADV
diabw
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V-AAS-1S
epi
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PREP
proswpon
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N-ASN
mou
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P-GS
skotov
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N-ASN
eyeto
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V-AMI-3S
NET © [draft] ITL
He has blocked
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my way
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so I cannot
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pass
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, and has set
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darkness
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over
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my paths
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.
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.”