'Darkness' in the Bible

“May that day be darkness;Let God above not care about it,Nor light shine on it.

“Let darkness and gloom claim it for their own;Let a cloud settle upon it;Let all that blackens the day terrify it (the day that I was born).

“As for that night, let darkness seize it;Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;Let it not be counted in the number of the months.

“In the daytime they meet in darkness,And at noon they grope as in the night.

Before I go—and I shall not return—To the land of darkness and the deep shadow [of death],

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.”

“And your life would be brighter than the noonday;Darkness [then] would be like the morning.

“He uncovers mysteries [that are difficult to grasp and understand] out of the darknessAnd brings black gloom and the shadow of death into light.

“He does not believe that he will return out of the darkness [for fear of being murdered],And he is destined for the sword [of God’s vengeance].

“He wanders about for food, saying, ‘Where is it?’He knows that the day of darkness and destruction is already at hand.

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

“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].

“But if I look to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) as my home,If I make my bed in the darkness,

“He is driven and propelled from light into darkness,And chased from the inhabited world.

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,And He has set darkness upon my paths.

“You say, ‘What does God know [about me]?Can He judge through the thick darkness?

But I am not silenced by the darkness [of these woes that fell on me],Nor by the thick darkness which covers my face.

“For the morning is the same to him as the thick darkness [of midnight];For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.

“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the watersAt the boundary between light and darkness.

“Man puts an end to darkness [by bringing in a light],And to the farthest bounds he searches outThe rock buried in gloom and deep shadow.

When His lamp shone upon my headAnd by His light I walked through darkness;

“When I expected good, then came evil [to me];And when I waited for light, then came darkness.

“There is no darkness nor deep shadowWhere the evildoers may hide themselves.

When I made the clouds its garmentAnd thick darkness its swaddling band,

“Have the gates of death been revealed to you,Or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?

“Where is the way where light dwells?And as for darkness, where is its place,