Job 3:23

3:23 Why is light given to a man

whose way is hidden,

and whom God has hedged in?

Job 19:8

19:8 He has blocked my way so I cannot pass,

and has set darkness over my paths.

Lamentations 3:7-9

ג (Gimel)

3:7 He has walled me in so that I cannot get out;

he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

3:8 Also, when I cry out desperately for help,

he has shut out my prayer.

3:9 He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones;

he has made every path impassable.

Luke 15:14-16

15:14 Then after he had spent everything, a severe famine took place in that country, and he began to be in need. 15:15 So he went and worked for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs. 15:16 He was longing to eat the carob pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything.

Luke 19:43

19:43 For the days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and surround you and close in on you from every side.