To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.
He has fenced up my way so that I cannot pass, and He has set darkness in my paths.
He has set a fence around me and I cannot go out; He has made my bronze chain heavy.
Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from Jehovah and my judgment has passed over from my God?
Therefore behold, I will hedge your way with thorns, and wall up her wall, that she shall not find her paths.
He walled up my ways with cut stone; my paths are crooked.
You have taken my friends away from me; You have made me a hateful thing to them. I am shut up, and I cannot go out.
and have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; You have set my feet in a broad place.
His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and camp around my tent.
Behold, He breaks down, and it can not be built up again; He shuts up a man, and no one opens.
know now that God has overthrown me, and His net has closed on me.
They are rejoicing to exultation. They are glad when they can find the grave.
You put my feet also in the stocks, and look closely to all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
My eye mourns because of affliction; O Jehovah, I have called daily on You; I have stretched out my hands to You.