²³ Why is life given to those with no future,
    those God has surrounded with difficulties?

⁸ God has blocked my way so I cannot move.
    He has plunged my path into darkness.

⁷ He has walled me in, and I cannot escape.
    He has bound me in heavy chains.

²⁷ O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles?
    O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?

⁶ “For this reason I will fence her in with thornbushes.
    I will block her path with a wall
    to make her lose her way.