[Why is light given] to a man whose way is hid, and whom God has hedged in?

Is not thy fear [of God] thy confidence, the integrity of thy ways thy hope?

The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others shall spring.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail, and they shall have no way to flee. And their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Behold, he will kill me; I have no hope. Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.

For when a few years are come, I shall go the way where I shall not return.

Yet the righteous shall hold on his way. And he who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

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

His troops come on together, and cast up their way against me, and encamp round about my tent.

And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that thou are righteous? Or is it gain [to him] that thou make thy ways perfect?

Will thou keep the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Thou shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established to thee. And light shall shine upon thy ways.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.

They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

These are of those who rebel against the light. They do not know the ways of it, nor abide in the paths of it.

Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.

[God] gives them to be in security, and they rest in it. And his eyes are upon their ways.

They are exalted. Yet a little while, and they are gone. Yea, they are brought low. They are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

Lo, these are but the periphery of his ways. And how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?

God understands the way of it, and he knows the place of it.

When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder,

I chose out their way, and sat [as] chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as a man who comforts the mourners.

Upon my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Does he not see my ways, and number all my steps?

if my step has turned out of the way, and my heart walked after my eyes, and if any spot has clung to my hands,

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, and he sees all his goings.

He breaks in pieces mighty men [in ways] past finding out, and sets others in their stead.

because they turned aside from following him, and would not have regard in any of his ways,

Who has enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou have wrought unrighteousness?

Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place of it

By what way is the light divided, or the east wind scattered upon the earth?

Who has cleft a channel for the water flood, or the way for the lightning of the thunder,