Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, whom God has hedged in?
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?
[Why is the light of day given] to a man whose way is hidden, and whom God has hedged in?
Why is light given to the person whose way is hidden, whom God has fenced in?
to a man whose way is hidden and whom God has surrounded with darkness?
To a man whose way is hidden, and God hath surrounded him with darkness?
If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
His troops come on together; they have cast up siegeworks against me, and encamp round about my tent.
know then that God has put me in the wrong, and closed his net about me.
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they find the grave?
and hast not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; thou hast set my feet in a broad place.
Thou hast caused my companions to shun me; thou hast made me a thing of horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape;
my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon thee, O Lord; I spread out my hands to thee.
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hid from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”?
He has walled me about so that I cannot escape; he has put heavy chains on me;
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
Therefore I will hedge up her way with thorns; and I will build a wall against her, so that she cannot find her paths.