They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

They grope about in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.

He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

before I depart, never to return, to the land of darkness and the deepest shadow,

He reveals the deep things of darkness, and brings deep shadows into the light.

These men change night into day; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

If I hope for the grave to be my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.

Yet I have not been silent because of the darkness, because of the thick darkness that covered my face.

when he caused his lamp to shine upon my head, and by his light I walked through darkness;

There is no darkness, and no deep darkness, where evildoers can hide themselves.

Tell us what we should say to him. We cannot prepare a case because of the darkness.

That day – let it be darkness; let not God on high regard it, nor let light shine on it!

Let darkness and the deepest shadow claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let whatever blackens the day terrify it!

He does not expect to escape from darkness; he is marked for the sword;

he wanders about – food for vultures; he knows that the day of darkness is at hand.

He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

In the dark the robber breaks into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they do not know the light.