He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
The verse depicts a person surrounded and shut in by hardship and bitter suffering, as though affliction had been built up like a wall against him. It is anguish and trouble hemming him in on every side, leaving him burdened and compassed about with bitterness. The suffering is not fleeting but piled up and enclosing, conveying complete encirclement by distress.
The verse depicts a person surrounded and shut in by hardship and bitter suffering, as though affliction had been built up like a wall against him. It is anguish and trouble hemming him in on every side, leaving him burdened and compassed about with bitterness. The suffering is not fleeting but piled up and enclosing, conveying complete encirclement by distress.