He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He hath made my paths crooked.
He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.
He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
He has walled in my ways with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
He walled in my paths with stonework; he made my routes crooked.
He has barred my way with blocks of stone, he has made my paths crooked.
God put big rocks in my way and made me follow a crooked path.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones, he hath turned my paths upside down.
He has blocked up my path with stones. He has made my path crooked.
On every road that I go along, he has put big rocks in my way. I cannot go past them.
He has blocked my way with a stone wall. He has made my paths crooked.
he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones; he has made my paths crooked.
He ·blocked [L walled in] my way with ·a stone wall [L cut stones] and ·led me in the wrong direction [L twisted my paths; Job 19:7–12].
He hath stopped up my ways with hewn stone, and turned away my paths.
He has blocked my way with cut stones and made my paths crooked.
I stagger as I walk; stone walls block me wherever I turn.
He has walled in my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my way with stones. He has made my life difficult.
He impeded my way with blocks of stone, making my paths uneven.
He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone; he has made my paths crooked.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my ways with dressed stones; he has made my paths crooked.
He has shut me into a place of high, smooth walls; he has filled my path with detours.
He shuts me in so I’ll never get out, handcuffs my wrists, shackles my feet. Even when I cry out and plead for help, he locks up my prayers and throws away the key. He sets up blockades with quarried limestone. He’s got me cornered.
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my way with cut stones and made my paths crooked.
He has hemmed in my ways with fitted stones, and made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my ways with cut stone; He has twisted my paths.
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
He has barred my way with blocks of stones and obstructed my paths.
He blocked my way with a stone wall and led me in the wrong direction.
He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.
He has put up a stone wall to block my way. He has made my paths crooked.
He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
He has barred my way with blocks of stone; he has made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my ways with hewn stone; He has made my paths crooked.
He has stopped me with blocks of stone. He has made my paths no longer straight.
He has blocked my way with a high stone wall; he has made my road crooked.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones; he has made my paths crooked.
He hath barred my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
He has blocked my way with hewn stone, turned away my paths.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
he has blocked my ways with hewn stones, he has made my paths crooked.
He walled in my ways with hewn stone. He twisted my paths.
Closed in and blocked by walls of cut stone, what paths I have left, He has twisted and confused my steps.
He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.
He closed together my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths. (He altogether enclosed my ways with square stones; he destroyed my paths.)
He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.
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