"Let [the] day perish on which I was born, and the night that said, 'A man-child is conceived.'

Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among [the] days of [the] year; let it not enter among [the] number of [the] months.

Look, let that night become barren; let a joyful song not enter it.

Amid troubling thoughts from night visions, at [the] falling of deep sleep on men,

In the daytime they meet [with] darkness, and they grope at noon as [in] the night.

When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I rise?' But [the] night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.

He will fly away like a dream, and they will not find him, and he will be chased away like a vision of [the] night.

They spend the night naked, {without} clothing, and [they] have no garment in the cold.

{At dusk} the murderer rises; he kills [the] needy and [the] poor, and in the night he is like a thief.

They make night into day, [saying], 'Light [is] {near to darkness}.'

[In] a moment they die, and [in] the middle of [the] night [the] people are shaken, and they pass away, and they take away [the] mighty {effortlessly}.

Therefore he knows their works, and he overturns [them] [in the] night {so that} they are crushed.

But no one says, 'Where [is] God my Maker, [who] gives songs in the night,

You must not long for the night, to cut off people {in their place}.

"Is [the] wild ox willing to serve you, or will he spend the night at your feeding trough?

It lives [on the] rock and spends the night {on the rock point and the mountain stronghold}.

Terrors overtake him like the water; a storm wind carries him off [in the] night.

My roots [were] open to water, and dew spent the night on my branches;

{At night I am in great pain}; my pains do not take a rest.

"In a dream, a vision of [the] night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on [their] bed,