Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
Cross-references
In Job 3:23, Job earlier laments being hedged in by God — the same image of blocked paths.
Job 22:11, spoken by Eliphaz, accuses Job of being in darkness as punishment, echoing Job's own lament in 19:8.
Job 23:17 shows Job's persistence despite the darkness, responding to his earlier complaint that God darkened his path.
Job 36:16 promises God would bring Job out of distress into a broad place, contrasting with the walled-up path in 19:8.
In Psalm 88:8, the psalmist is shut in and cannot escape — mirroring Job's walled-up way.
Jeremiah 13:16 warns that God will bring darkness and cause stumbling, similar to Job's experience of God walling up his way.
In Lamentations 3:7, the writer is walled about and cannot escape — identical imagery to Job's situation.
In Lamentations 3:9, God blocks the way with stones — parallel to Job's path being walled up.
In Hosea 2:6, God hedges up Israel's way with thorns — similar divine blocking as in Job's complaint.
Lamentations 3:5 echoes the same image of God as an adversary who walls in and besieges the sufferer.
Psalm 107:14 describes God delivering from darkness — the opposite of Job's experience where God blocks his path with darkness.
Isaiah 50:10 encourages those walking in darkness to trust God, while Job laments that God himself darkened his path.
John 8:12 promises that following Jesus brings light, contrasting with Job's experience of walking in darkness set by God.