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

Return, I pray you, let it not be iniquity; yes, return again, my righteousness is in it.

His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Though he may spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

For God speaketh once, yes twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

With clouds he covereth the light; and commandeth it not to shine by the intervening cloud.