⁶ Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find.

⁸ My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

²³ To a man whose way hath been hidden, And whom God doth shut up?

⁷ He hath hedged me about, and I go not out, He hath made heavy my fetter.

⁸ Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

⁹ He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

¹⁴ and he having spent all, there came a mighty famine on that country, and himself began to be in want;

¹⁵ and having gone on, he joined himself to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him to the fields to feed swine,

¹⁶ and he was desirous to fill his belly from the husks that the swine were eating, and no one was giving to him.

⁴³ `Because days shall come upon thee, and thine enemies shall cast around thee a rampart, and compass thee round, and press thee on every side,