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

Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off.

Therefore, he knows their deeds, he overthrows them in the night and they are crushed.

Do not long for the cover of night to drag people away from their homes.

“Let the day on which I was born perish, and the night that said, ‘A man has been conceived!’

In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night when a deep sleep falls on men,

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

Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

But no one says, ‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,

That night – let darkness seize it; let it not be included among the days of the year; let it not enter among the number of the months!

Indeed, let that night be barren; let no shout of joy penetrate it!

thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.

Before daybreak the murderer rises up; he kills the poor and the needy; in the night he is like a thief.

In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.

In a moment they die, in the middle of the night, people are shaken and they pass away. The mighty are removed effortlessly.

Then they sat down with him on the ground for seven days and seven nights, yet no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.