As for that night, let thick darkness seize upon it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.

The caravans [that travel] by the way of them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

If thy sons have sinned against him, and he has delivered them into the hand of their transgression,

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of the judges of it. If not [he], who then is it?

Remember, I beseech thee, that thou have fashioned me as clay. And will thou bring me into dust again?

The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].

And do thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgment with thee?

God delivers me to the perverse, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness.

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon the toils.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Is it for thy fear [of him] that he reproves thee, that he enters with thee into judgment?

Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They do not turn into the way of the vineyards.

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit, and my life shall behold the light.

Yea, he would have allured thee out of distress into a broad place, where there is no confinement, and that which is set on thy table would be full of fatness.

Then the beasts go into coverts, and remain in their dens.

Have thou entered into the springs of the sea? Or have thou walked in the recesses of the deep?

when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods cleave fast together?

Can thou put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?

The arrow cannot make him flee. Sling-stones are turned into stubble with him.