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

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

^9 (A)he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
    he has made my paths crooked.

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

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

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