¹⁴ Thick clouds are covering him, so that he is unable to see; and he is walking on the arch of heaven.

¹¹ If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

¹² 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.

⁹ By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.

²² There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

¹⁴ From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;

² Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.

¹ <To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> O Lord, you have knowledge of me, searching out all my secrets.

² You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.

²⁴ In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.

² But nothing is covered up, which will not come to light, or secret, which will not be made clear.

³ So, whatever you have said in the dark, will come to men's hearing in the light, and what you have said secretly inside the house, will be made public from the house-tops.