Job 3:23

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

“He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me.

How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

He also brought me out into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.

On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Why do you strive against him, because he doesn’t give account of any of his matters?

Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, a horror to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

Consider the work of God, for who can make that straight, which he has made crooked?

O Yahweh, why do you make us wander from your ways, and harden our heart from your fear? Return for your servants’ sake, the tribes of your inheritance.

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.

If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

Behold, he will kill me. I have no hope. Nevertheless, I will maintain my ways before him.

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

He has broken me down on every side, and I am gone. He has plucked my hope up like a tree.

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

He seals up the hand of every man, that all men whom he has made may know it.

Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?”

Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, says to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: “Kings shall see and rise up, princes, and they shall worship, because of Yahweh who is faithful, even the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem. Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

Then they took Jeremiah and threw him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard. They let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.

He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

Whereas Edom says, “We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;” Yahweh of Armies says, “They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them ‘The Wicked Land,’ even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever.”

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

You have declared today how you have dealt well with me, because when Yahweh had delivered me up into your hand, you didn’t kill me.

Then Abishai said to David, “God has delivered up your enemy into your hand today. Now therefore please let me strike him with the spear to the earth at one stroke, and I will not strike him the second time.”

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.

know now that God has subverted me, and has surrounded me with his net.

His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.

If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up, if you put away unrighteousness far from your tents.

“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter

They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.

You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.

“Behold, I will answer you. In this you are not just, for God is greater than man.

“Shall he who argues contend with the Almighty? He who argues with God, let him answer it.”

Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.

He brought me out also into a large place. He delivered me, because he delighted in me.

You have not shut me up into the hand of the enemy. You have set my feet in a large place.

You brought us into prison. You laid a burden on our backs.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

You have put lover and friend far from me, and my friends into darkness.

Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart within me is desolate.

Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

The cities of the South are shut up, and there is no one to open them. Judah is carried away captive: all of them. They are wholly carried away captive.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and no one can stop his hand, or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

Ephraim will become a desolation in the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel, I have made known that which will surely be.

When they go, I will spread my net on them. I will bring them down like the birds of the sky. I will chastise them, as their congregation has heard.

When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.

If then God gave to them the same gift as us, when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I, that I could withstand God?”

“For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?” But we have Christ’s mind.

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?