To a man whose way is hidden, God has made a hedge about him.

Is not your reverence your hope? Is not your hope the uprightness of your ways?

The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing and are lost.

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

Though he slay me, I will not wait, but I will maintain my own ways before Him.

Though I speak, my pain is not held back, and though I forbear, in what way am I eased?

For the years that are few will come, and I shall go the way from where I shall not return.

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he who has clean hands adds strength.

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

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

His troops come together and raise up their way against me, and camp around my tent.

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

Did you not ask those who go by the way? And do you not know their signs,

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 gain to Him that you make your ways perfect?

Do you keep to the old way which wicked men have walked?

You shall also order a thing, and it shall be fulfilled to you; and the light shall shine on your 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 in His steps; I have kept His way, and have not fallen away;

They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

They are of those who rebel against the light; they know not His ways, nor stay in His paths.

He is swift on the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he does not behold the way of the vineyards.

He gives safety to him, and he rests on it; yet His eyes are on their ways.

Lo, these are the edges of His ways; but what a whisper of a word we hear of Him! And the thunder of His power who can understand?

God understands the way of it, and He knows its place.

When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning to thunder;

I chose out their way, and sat as chief; and I lived like a king in the army, as one who comforts the mourners.

On my right a brood rises; they push away my feet and raise up against me the ways of their ruin.

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

If my step has turned out of the way, or my heart has walked after my eyes, and if any blot has held fast to my hands;

For He repays man's work, and causes him to find according to his ways.

For His eyes are on the ways of man, and He sees all his steps.

because thus they turned from following Him, and they did not consider all His ways;

Who has appointed Him His way; or who can say, You have done wrong?

Where is the way where light dwells? And where is the place of darkness,

How is it, the way the light is distributed, and how does the east wind spread itself on the earth?

Who has cut a channel for the flood, or a way for the thunderclaps;

He is the first of the ways of God; his Maker brings near his sword.