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)

²⁶ Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
    when I looked for light, then came darkness.^(A)