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 watchfully at all my paths; you put a mark on the heels of my feet.
His troops come together, and build up their pathway against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.
Know now that God has overthrown me, and has surrounded me with his net.
He has fenced up my way so 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 place.
You have put away my acquaintances far from me; you have made me an abomination to them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
My eye mourns because of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon you, I have stretched out my hands to you.
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over by my God?
He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.
He has enclosed my ways with cut 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.