King James Bible
"Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?"
Job questions the purpose of life itself, with 'light' representing existence and consciousness. In his anguish, he cannot understand why God grants life when it brings only suffering, echoing his earlier wish that he had never been born. This describes a person who cannot see their path forward or understand their circumstances. The hidden way suggests divine concealment, implying that God has deliberately obscured the meaning and direction of the sufferer's life. The hedge imagery reverses its typical protective meaning (as in Job 1:10) to become a prison. Job feels trapped by God's constraints, unable to escape his misery, suggesting that the very God who should liberate has instead become his captor.