Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

My brothers have dealt deceitfully as a brook, as the channel of brooks that pass away;

(Which wise men have told by their fathers, and have not hidden it;

For then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face to God.

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

Will he delight himself in the Almighty, and call on God at all times?

For he has said, 'It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.'

Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?