Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?
Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
You put my feet also in the stocks, and look narrowly to all my paths; you set a print on the heels of my feet.
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Know now that God has overthrown me, and has compassed me with his net.
He has fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness in my paths.
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
And have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: you have set my feet in a large room.
You have put away my acquaintance far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
My eye mourns by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily on you, I have stretched out my hands to you.
Why say you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.
Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.