Text -- Job 19:8 (NET)

19:8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 19:8

¹ 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.

² tn Some commentators take the word to be חָשַׁךְ (hasak), related to an Arabic word for “thorn hedge.”