²³ He wanders abroad for bread, saying, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

¹⁰ Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

¹⁵ They shall wander up and down for food, And wait all night if they aren't satisfied.

¹² His strength shall be famished, Calamity shall be ready at his side.

³⁷ They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated

³⁸ (of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, mountains, caves, and the holes of the earth.

²⁷ but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

¹⁵ That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness,

²⁰ Will the day of Yahweh not be darkness, and not light? Even very dark, and no brightness in it?

² A day of darkness and gloominess, A day of clouds and thick darkness. As the dawn spreading on the mountains, A great and strong people; There has never been the like, Neither will there be any more after them, Even to the years of many generations.

⁹ We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Because of the sword of the wilderness.

⁶ We have given the hand to the Egyptians, To the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

⁸ Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

³ They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

⁴ They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

⁵ "Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.

⁶ The light shall be dark in his tent, His lamp above him shall be put out.

¹² From now on, when you till the ground, it won't yield its strength to you. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth."