If only darkness had taken that night away!
May it not appear among the days of the year
or be listed in the calendar.

"Yes, let that night be barren; let it not appear with its joyful shout.

So shall thy beginning appear small, - when, thy latter end, he shall greatly increase!

“I am accounted wicked and held guilty;
Why then should I labor in vain [to appear innocent]?

Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Above high noon, shall rise life's continuance, Darkness, like a morning, shall appear,

I wish you'd all just shut up. Then at least you would appear to be wise.

Yes, this will result in my deliverance,
for no godless person can appear before Him.

Wherefore are we accounted like beasts? or appear stupid, in thine eyes?

If you really want to appear superior to me
and would use my disgrace as evidence against me,

All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

I put on justice and it will clothe me: my judgment as an upper garment and a turban.

They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Let, my shoulder, from the shoulder-blade, fall, and, my arm, from the upper bone, be broken;

Insomuch that his body is clean consumed away, and his bones appear no more.

Let him pray to God and he will accept him; he will appear before him with joyful shouts!"

“For He sets no appointed time for a man,
That he should appear before Him in judgment.

It is changed like clay [under] a seal, and they appear like a garment.

“Will you really annul My judgment and set it aside as void?
Will you condemn Me [your God] that you may [appear to] be righteous and justified?

Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.