Ayub 19:8

19:8 He has blocked ¹  my way so I cannot pass,

and has set darkness ²  over my paths.

Yeremia 8:15

8:15 We hoped for good fortune, but nothing good has come of it.

We hoped for a time of relief, but instead we experience terror. ³ 

[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.

[19:8]  ² tn Some commentators take the word to be חָשַׁךְ (hasak), related to an Arabic word for “thorn hedge.”

[8:15]  ³ tn Heb “[We hoped] for a time of healing but behold terror.”