As for that night, let thick darkness seize on 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 beside them turn aside. They go up into the waste, and perish.

If your children have sinned against him, He has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.

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

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

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

They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?"

For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he wanders into its mesh.

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

Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

"They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don't turn into the way of the vineyards.

He has cast me into the mire. 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. My life shall see the light.'

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a broad place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

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

when the dust runs into a mass, and the clods of earth stick together?

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