²³ Why is life given to a man
    whose way is hidden,^(A)
    whom God has hedged in?^(B)

⁷ He has walled me in so I cannot escape;^(A)
    he has weighed me down with chains.^(B)

⁹ He has barred^(A) my way with blocks of stone;
    he has made my paths crooked.^(B)