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.
know then that God has put me in the wrong and closed his net about me.
If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
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