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  • Esmari Potgieter

2025-01-29
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  1. Job 3:23 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Commentary on Job 3:23 (Summary)

Job 3:23 (ESV)

23 Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Job feels himself trapped in a dark and aimless existence. God himself has blocked Job’s way forward. It is incomprehensible to Job why God would still want him to live.

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