or to a man whose way is concealed, whom God has covered?

He has fenced up my way, so that I cannot pass; and He has set darkness in my paths.

He has fenced me in and I cannot go out; He has made my bronze chain heavy.

He walled up my ways with hewn stone; my paths are crooked.

But when he had spent all, there arose a severe famine in that land, and he began to be destitute.

And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the husks that the swine ate, and no one gave to him.

For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and besiege you on every side,