¹⁷ For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

⁸ My way is walled up by him so that I may not go by: he has made my roads dark.

²⁰ For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.

⁹ If only he would be pleased to put an end to me; and would let loose his hand, so that I might be cut off!

²² He has no hope of coming safe out of the dark, and his fate will be the sword;

⁶ The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.

¹⁸ He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

¹¹ Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

¹ The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.