Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

Who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

It stood still, but I could not discern its form: an image was before my eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away: so he that goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

For, though I were righteous, yet could I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

For a vain man will be wise, when a man is born a wild donkey's colt.

I also could speak as you do: if your soul were in my soul's place, I could heap up words against you, and shake my head at you.

And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

The righteous see it, and are glad: and the innocent laugh them to scorn.

Then shall you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

But he knows the way that I take: when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.

They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

He binds up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not torn under them.

He holds back the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud upon it.

Surely there is a vein for the silver, and a place for gold where they refine it.

The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it has dust of gold.

It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be valued with pure gold.

Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my honor as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.

For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I could not endure.

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;

Will he esteem your riches? no, not gold, nor all the forces of strength.

With clouds he covers the light; and commands it not to shine by the cloud that comes between.

Out of the south comes the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

Also with moisture he loads the thick cloud: he scatters his bright cloud:

Do you know when God dispatched them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they consoled him, and comforted him over all the trouble that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.