'Darkness' in the Bible
Let that day become darkness; may God not seek it from above, nor may daylight shine on it.
Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let clouds settle on it; let them terrify it [with the] blackness of day.
Let darkness seize that night; let it not rejoice among [the] days of [the] year; let it not enter among [the] number of [the] months.
In the daytime they meet [with] darkness, and they grope at noon as [in] the night.
Before I go--and I will not return-- to [the] land of darkness and deep shadow,
to [the] land of darkness, like [the] darkness of a deep shadow and {chaos}, so that it shines forth like darkness.'"
"{And your life will be brighter than noon}; [its] darkness will be like the morning.
"He uncovers mysteries out of darkness, and he brings deep shadow to the light.
{He cannot trust that he will return} from darkness, and he himself is destined for [the] sword.
"He is wandering for bread, [saying], 'Where [is it]?' He knows that a day of darkness [is] ready {at hand}.
"He will not escape from darkness; a flame will dry up his new shoot, and by the wind of his mouth he shall be removed.
They make night into day, [saying], 'Light [is] {near to darkness}.'
If I hope [for] Sheol [as] my house, [if] I spread my couch in the darkness,
"They thrust him from light into darkness, and they drive him out from [the] world.
He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass; and he has set darkness upon my paths.
{Total darkness} is hidden for his treasures; {an unfanned fire} will devour him; [the] remnant {will be consumed} in his tent.
Indeed, I have not been silenced {because of darkness}, and because of me he conceals thick darkness.
He digs through houses in the darkness; by day they shut themselves in-- they do not know [the] light
because morning likewise is to them deep darkness; indeed, they know about [the] terrors of deep darkness.
{He has described a circle} on [the] face of [the] water {between light and darkness}.
He puts an end to darkness, and he searches out the farthest limits [for the] ore [in] gloom and deep shadow.
when his shining lamp [was] over my head-- by his light I walked through darkness--
Through want and through barren hunger they are gnawing [in the] dry region [in the] darkness of desolation and waste.
Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came, and I waited for light, but darkness came.
There is no darkness, and there is no deep shadow where instigators of mischief might hide themselves.
"Teach us what we should say to him; we cannot draw up our case because of [the] presence of darkness.
at my making [the] clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling band,