The [sunless] land of utter gloom as darkness itself,
[The land] of the shadow of death, without order,
And [where] it shines as [thick] darkness.”

“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;
‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].

Or darkness, so that you cannot see,
And a flood of water covers you.

“Their light is withheld from the wicked,
And the uplifted arm is broken.