Job 3: Job Laments His Birth

After a week of silence Job speaks, wishing his birthday and the night he was conceived had been erased. He asks why he did not die as an infant, imagines the dead at rest where great and small lie together, and describes his own life as full of turmoil with no peace.

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In Job 3:23, Job said God had hedged him in. How does that compare with Satan’s words about God’s hedge around Job in Job 1:10?

Both used the hedge to describe the walls of Job’s ruined houseSatan said the hedge kept Job safe, but Job now felt it trapped himBoth used the hedge to describe the borders of Job’s pasturesSatan said the hedge kept Job trapped, but Job now felt it kept him safe