Job 3:23-25

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²³who are unable to find their way
    and whom God has hemmed in on every side?^[a]
²⁴“Sighs are for me my only food,
    and my groans pour forth like water.
²⁵Everything that I fear has afflicted me,
    and whatever I dread befalls me.

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Footnotes

Job 3:23 Earlier in the Book, Job is said to have been in God’s safekeeping (Job 1:10). Now Job feels that God has hemmed him in on every side, leaving him in turmoil (see v. 26).

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