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

The light in his tent grows dark; his lamp above him is extinguished.

He has searched the sources of the rivers and what was hidden he has brought into the light.

“Why does God give light to one who is in misery, and life to those whose soul is bitter,

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

“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

if I looked at the sun when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

With his hands he covers the lightning, and directs it against its target.

Do you know how God commands them, how he makes lightning flash in his storm cloud?

Its snorting throws out flashes of light; its eyes are like the red glow of dawn.

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn infant, like infants who have never seen the light?

There are those who rebel against the light; they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.

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

He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.

But now, the sun cannot be looked at – it is bright in the skies – after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.

“In what direction does light reside, and darkness, where is its place,

In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?