Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
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;
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?
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 blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.
His troops come on together; they have cast up their siege ramp against me and encamp around my tent.
If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.
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