Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has made my chains heavy; though I call and cry for help, he shuts out my prayer; he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side
And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. And he was longing to be fed with the pods that the pigs ate, and no one gave him anything.
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