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# Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, a man whom God has hedged in?
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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]])
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# Why is light given to a man
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Here light represents life. Alternate translation: "Why does God keep a man alive" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# whose way is hidden
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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]])
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# a man whom God has hedged in
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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]])
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# whom God has hedged in
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"around whom God has built a hedge." A hedge is a wall of bushes planted so close together that people cannot go through it.
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