Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
25 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “way” →
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other , and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?
Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;
