Rashi

1040–1105 Jewish

for a man whose way is hidden All the good deeds that he performed were hidden from the Great Recompenser, and He did not look at them.
and God hedged him in He made a wall in front of him to shut him up in a prison, as in (Hos. 2:8) “Behold I will close off your way.”

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