⁶ Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her, That she can't find her way.

⁸ He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.

²³ Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, Whom God has hedged in?

⁷ He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

⁸ Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

⁹ He has walled up my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.

¹⁴ When he had spent all of it, there arose a severe famine in that country, and he began to be in need.

¹⁵ He went and joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to feed pigs.

¹⁶ He wanted to fill his belly with the husks that the pigs ate, but no one gave him any.

⁴³ For the days will come on you, when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,