en_tn_condensed/job/03/23.md

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, a man whom God has hedged in?

Job asks this question in order to make a statement. Alternate translation: "God should not give life to a man and then take away his future and confine him." (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-rquestion)

Why is light given to a man

Here light represents life. Alternate translation: "Why does God keep a man alive" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)

whose way is hidden

Here Job speaks of his future, which he does not know in advance, as if God had hidden it from him. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)

a man whom God has hedged in

Here a man who has difficulties and is in danger is spoken of as if God had put a hedge around him so he could not move. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor)

whom God has hedged in

"around whom God has built a hedge." A hedge is a wall of bushes planted so close together that people cannot go through it.