Job 19:8
8 He has blocked ▼▼ 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.
my way so I cannot pass,
and has set darkness ▼▼ Some commentators take the word to be חָשַׁךְ (
hasak), related to an Arabic word for “thorn hedge.”
over my paths.