▼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.

▼tn Some commentators take the word to be חָשַׁךְ (hasak), related to an Arabic word for “thorn hedge.”