To a man whose way was hid, and God will hedge about him?
He walled up my path and I shall not pass, and he will set darkness upon my beaten paths.
He walled about me and I shall not go forth: he loaded my brass.
For what wilt thou say, O Jacob, and wilt thou speak, O Israel, My way was hid from Jehovah, and my judgment will pass over from my God.
Therefore, behold me hedging in thy way with thorns, and I walled a wall and she shall not find her beaten paths.
He walled up my ways with hewn stones, he made crooked my beaten paths.
Thou didst remove far from me mine acquaintance; thou didst set me an abomination to them: I was shut up, and I shall not go forth.
And thou didst not shut me up in the hand of the enemy: thou didst cause my feet to stand in a broad place.
His troops shall come together and raise up their way against me, and they will encamp round about to my tent
Behold, he will pull down and it shall not be built up: he will shut up against man and it shall not be opened.
Know ye now that God subverted me; and he folded his net about me.
Rejoicing with joy when they find the grave;
And thou wilt set my feet in the stocks, and thou wilt watch all my paths; thou wilt dig round the roots of my feet
Mine eye languished from affliction: I called to thee, O Jehovah, in all the day, I stretched my hands to thee.