Let the day perish in which I was born, and the night that said, There is a man child conceived.

That night let gloom seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

Behold, let that night be barren; let no joyful sound come therein;

In thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men: --

They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.

They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.

He flieth away as a dream, and is not found; and is chased away as a vision of the night.

They pass the night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold;

The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

Terrors overtake him like waters; a whirlwind stealeth him away in the night.

My root shall be spread out to the waters, and the dew will lie all night on my branch;

The night pierceth through my bones and detacheth them from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth them in the night, and they are crushed.

But none saith, Where is +God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night,

Desire not the night, when peoples are cut off from their place.