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

Your words have supported those who stumbled, and you have strengthened the knees that gave way.

Is not your piety your confidence, and your blameless ways your hope?

Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.

Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

For the years that lie ahead are few, and then I will go on the way of no return.

But the righteous man holds to his way, and the one with clean hands grows stronger.

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

Is it of any special benefit to the Almighty that you should be righteous, or is it any gain to him that you make your ways blameless?

"Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good.

Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

God may let them rest in a feeling of security, but he is constantly watching all their ways.

Indeed, these are but the outer fringes of his ways! How faint is the whisper we hear of him! But who can understand the thunder of his power?"

God understands the way to it, and he alone knows its place.

I chose the way for them and sat as their chief; I lived like a king among his troops; I was like one who comforts mourners.

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

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, or if anything has defiled my hands,

"For God speaks, the first time in one way, the second time in another, though a person does not perceive it.

For his eyes are on the ways of an individual, he observes all a person's steps.

because they have turned away from following him, and have not understood any of his ways,

Who has prescribed his ways for him? Or said to him, 'You have done what is wicked'?

God thunders with his voice in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.

"Are you acquainted with the way the mountain goats give birth? Do you watch as the wild deer give birth to their young?