"Let the day perish in which I was born, the night which said, 'There is a boy conceived.'

As for that night, let thick darkness seize on 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 voice come therein.

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

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.

They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

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

They lie all night naked without clothing, and have no covering in the cold.

The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

Terrors overtake him like waters. A storm steals him away in the night.

My root is spread out to the waters. The dew lies all night on my branch.

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

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