In want and hunger, they were lean, - who used to gnaw the dry ground, a dark night of desolation!

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.

Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.

He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.

There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

For he knoweth their evil and dark works: therefore shall they be destroyed.

And if they do not hearken, By the dart they pass away, And expire without knowledge.

“Behold, He spreads His lightning around Him [against the dark clouds],
And He covers the depths of the sea.

Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

And now the light is not seen, for it is dark because of the clouds; but a wind comes, clearing them away.

Who is this who makes the purpose of God dark by words without knowledge?

When I made the clouds to be a covering for it, and swaddled it with the dark;

Have the doors of death been open to you, or have the door-keepers of the dark ever seen you?

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;

“Who has put wisdom in the innermost being [of man, or in the layers of clouds]
Or given understanding to the mind [of man, or to the heavenly display]?

Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

Who dare lay a hand on him openly, and undertake to catch him? Or, who dare put a hook through his nose, and lay a snare for him?

None is so fierce that would dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire dart forth.

The sword of his overtaker standeth not, Spear -- dart -- and lance.

Who is this who makes dark the purpose of God by words without knowledge? For I have been talking without knowledge about wonders not to be searched out.

His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

He is waiting in the dark places of the towns: in the secret places he puts to death those who have done no wrong: his eyes are secretly turned against the poor.

He parted the heavens and came down,
a dark cloud beneath His feet.

He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and fire.

You, O Lord, will be my light; by you, my God, the dark will be made bright for me.

Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you [are] with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me

Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them.

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

As for the wicked, God says, "How dare you recite my statutes or speak about my covenant with your lips!

Let their eyes be dark so they cannot see, and make their loins continually tremble.

Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times;

In your distress you called out and I rescued you. I answered you from a dark thundercloud. I tested you at the waters of Meribah. (Selah)

They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

You have put me in the lowest deep, even in dark places.

May there be knowledge of your wonders in the dark? or of your righteousness where memory is dead?

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

Dark clouds surround him; equity and justice are the foundation of his throne.

You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.

He sent darkness, and it became dark—
for did they not defy His commands?

Inhabitants of dark places and death-shade, Prisoners of affliction and of iron,

He bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.

For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.

Wo! to me that I sojourned in Mesech; I dwelt with the tents of Ke dar.

If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

For an enemy hath pursued my soul, He hath bruised to the earth my life, He hath caused me to dwell in dark places, As the dead of old.

To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

Coverlets, have I spread on my couch of pleasure, dark-hued stuffs, of the yarn of Egypt;

Till a dart striketh through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

He that is proud and presumptuous, is called a scornful man, which in wrath dare work maliciously.

Sawest thou a man apt in his works? Before kings shall he stand; he shall not stand before the dark ones

Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?

Wisdom is a high thing; yea, even to the fool, for he dare not open his mouth in the gate.

Then I saw that wisdom is better than foolish ways--as the light is better than the dark.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;

I am dark, but lovely, O you daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has darkened me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but my own vineyard have I not kept.

Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, come, my loved one, and be like a roe on the mountains of Bether.

Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

My beloved is dazzling, with a dark and healthy complexion, outstanding among ten thousand.

His head is pure gold -- fine gold, His locks flowing, dark as a raven,

Come now, and let us have an argument together, says the Lord: how may your sins which are red like blood be white as snow? how may their dark purple seem like wool?

In that day men will put their images of silver and of gold, which they made for worship, in the keeping of the beasts of the dark places;

How dare you crush my people as you grind down the face of the poor?" declares the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies.

Those who get up early to drink beer are as good as dead, those who keep drinking long after dark until they are intoxicated with wine.

Cursed are those who give the name of good to evil, and of evil to what is good: who make light dark, and dark light: who make bitter sweet, and sweet bitter!

And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.

And he will be looking down on the earth, and there will be trouble and dark clouds, black night where there is no seeing.

The people who went in the dark have seen a great light, and for those who were living in the land of the deepest night, the light is shining.

For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.

The land was dark with the wrath of the Lord of armies: the people were like those who take men's flesh for food.

My hand hath found out the Hosts of the people, as it were a nest. And like as eggs, that were laid here and there, are gathered together: So do I gather all countries. And there is no man, that dare be so bold as to touch a feather, that dare open his mouth, or once whisper."

For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell.

Give us counsel and make a decision.
Shelter us at noonday
with shade that is as dark as night.
Hide the refugees;
do not betray the one who flees.

The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; Pharaoh's wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh, "I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?"

In the streets they cry for wine.
All joy grows dark;
earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.

Woe unto them that hide deep, far from Jehovah, their counsel! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

And in that day those whose ears are stopped will be hearing the words of the book; and the eyes of the blind will see through the mist and the dark.

They dare say to the Prophets, "See not," and unto them that be clear of judgment, "Tell us of nothing for to come, but speak friendly words unto us, and preach us false things.

There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.

Your claim to have a strategy and military strength is just empty talk. In whom are you trusting, that you would dare to rebel against me?

To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

This is what the Lord says, the Holy One of Israel, the one who formed him, concerning things to come: "How dare you question me about my children! How dare you tell me what to do with the work of my own hands!

I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek me in vain: I am Jehovah, speaking righteousness, declaring things which are right.