Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes black the day terrify it.

because it didn't shut up the doors of my mother's womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.

As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

before I go where I shall not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.'"

He uncovers deep things out of darkness, and brings out to light the shadow of death.

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

My eye also is dim by reason of sorrow. All my members are as a shadow.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

The lotuses cover him with their shade. The willows of the brook surround him.

Strong scales are his pride, shut up together with a close seal.