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

Is not this your fear, your confidence, your hope, and the uprightness of your ways?

The paths of their way turn aside; they go nowhere, and perish.

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

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

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will defend my own ways before him.

When a few years have come, then I shall go the way where I shall not return.

The righteous also shall hold to his way, and he that has clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

The noose is laid for him on the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

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

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

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.

Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their evidences,

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 you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways blameless?

Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you: and the light shall shine upon your ways.

But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

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

They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.

They are swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: no one turns into the way of the vineyards.

Though it be given him to be in safety, he rests; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

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

Lo, these are only parts of his ways: and how little a whisper is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

God understands its way, and he knows its place.

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 like a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.

Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

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

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

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

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

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

Who has prescribed him his way? or who can say, You have worked iniquity?

Where is the way where light dwells? and as for darkness, where is its place,

By what way is the light distributed, which scatters the east wind upon the earth?

Who has divided a channel for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

He is the first of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.