To the man whose way is hidden, and whom +God hath hedged in?

Hath not thy piety been thy confidence, and the perfection of thy ways thy hope?

Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.

Behold, if he slay me, yet would I trust in him; but I will defend mine own ways before him.

For years few in number shall pass, and I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

But the righteous shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall increase in strength.

A cord is hidden for him in the ground, and his trap in the way.

He hath hedged up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

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

And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if thou art righteous? And is it gain to him that thou makest thy ways perfect?

And thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and light shall shine upon thy ways.

But he knoweth the way that I take; he trieth me, I shall come forth as gold.

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

They turn the needy out of the way: the afflicted of the land all hide themselves.

There are those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

He is swift on the face of the waters; their portion is cursed on the earth: he turneth not unto the way of the vineyards.

God setteth him in safety, and he resteth thereon; but his eyes are upon their ways.

Lo, these are the borders of his ways; but what a whisper of a word do we hear of him! And the thunder of his power, who can understand?

God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth its place:

In appointing a statute for the rain, and a way for the thunder's flash:

I chose their way, and sat as chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth mourners.

At my right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;

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

If my step have turned out of the way, and my heart followed mine eyes, and if any blot cleaveth to my hands;

For a man's work will he render to him, and cause every one to find according to his way.

For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his steps.

Because they have turned back from him, and would consider none of his ways;

Who hath appointed him his way? or who hath said, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?

And they are turned every way by his guidance, that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the circuit of the earth,

Where is the way to where light dwelleth? and the darkness, where is its place,

By what way is the light parted, and the east wind scattered upon the earth?

Who hath divided a channel for the rain-flood, and a way for the thunder's flash;

He is the chief of God's ways: he that made him gave him his sword.