Let the day perish on which I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a male child conceived.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not rejoice among the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come into it.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

He has drawn a circle on the waters at the boundary where the day and night come together.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night.

My root was spread out to the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

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

Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.