Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 3:23

23. [Why is Light given ] to a man [whose way is hid, ] and [whom God hath hedged in? ]

These words are conveniently supplied out of v. 20. where they are, all the following words hitherto being joined in Construction and sense with them.

To wit, from him; who knows not his way, i. e. which way to turn himself, what course to take to comfort himself in his Miseries, or to get out of them, what method to use to please and reconcile that God who is so angry with him, seeing his sincere and exact Piety, to which God is witness, doth not satisfie him, or what the end of these Calamities will be.

Not with a Hedge of defence, like that Ch. 1. 10. but of Offence and Restraint; i. e. whom God hath put as it were in a Prison or Pound, or like Cattle in grounds inclosed with an high and strong Hedge, over or through which they cannot get, so that he can see no way nor possibility to escape, but all refuge fails him.

Marginal references: Chap. 19. 8. Lam. 3. 7.