⁸ He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,
    and he has set darkness upon my paths.^(A)

²³ Why is light given to one who cannot see the way,
    whom God has fenced in?^(A)

⁹ he has blocked my ways with hewn stones;
    he has made my paths crooked.

⁶ Therefore I will hedge up her^[a] way with thorns,
    and I will build a wall against her
    so that she cannot find her paths.^(A)

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
    they do not know what they stumble over.^(A)

¹² Therefore their way shall be to them
    like slippery paths in the darkness,
    into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
    in the year of their punishment,
            says the Lord.^(A)

¹⁶ Give glory to the Lord your God
    before he brings darkness
and before your feet stumble
    on the mountains at twilight;
while you look for light,
    he turns it into gloom
    and makes it deep darkness.^(A)