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.

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

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

As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.

An empty-headed man becomes wise when a man is born as a wild donkey's colt.

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul's place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come forth like gold.

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

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

He encloses the face of his throne, and spreads his cloud on it.

"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold which they refine.

Sapphires come from its rocks. It has dust of gold.

It can't be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for its price.

It can't be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Gold and glass can't equal it, neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

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

Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

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

Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

Yes, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning.

Do you know how God controls them, and causes the lightning of his cloud to shine?

Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.