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.

“Tell us [Job] what words [of man] shall we say to such a Being;
We cannot state our case because of darkness [that is, our ignorance in the presence of the unsearchable God].

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 dare stir him up: who then is able to stand before me?

Out of his mouth, torches dart forth, sparks of fire, escape;

The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

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.

Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.

I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

In a time of need you called out and I delivered you; I answered you from the dark thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Interlude

They neither know nor understand; they walk about in the dark while all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

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

Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

When you make it dark, it is night, when all the beasts of the woods come quietly out of their secret places.

He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.

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] darkness is not too dark for you, and [the] night shines as the day-- the darkness [and] the light are alike [for you].

For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; 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 strike 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;

Dark am I, and comely, daughters of Jerusalem, As tents of Kedar, as curtains of Solomon.

Fear me not, because I am very dark, Because the sun hath scorched me, The sons of my mother were angry with me, They made me keeper of the vineyards, My vineyard -- my own -- I have 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 he will roar over him on that day like [the] roaring of [the] sea, and [if] one looks to the land, look! Darkness! Distress! And [the] light grows dark with its 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."

Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations
will not give their light.
The sun will be dark when it rises,
and the moon will not shine.

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 seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, 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 have caused the blind to go, In a way they have not known, In paths they have not known I cause them to tread, I make a dark place before them become light, And unlevelled places become a plain, These are the things I have done to them, And I have not forsaken them.

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 ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.