²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

¹⁵ We looked for peace, but no good came; [and] for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

¹⁹ Have you utterly rejected Judah? has your soul loathed Zion? why have you struck us, and there is no healing for us? We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of healing, and, behold, dismay!

²⁵ For the thing which I fear comes on me, That which I am afraid of comes to me.

²⁶ I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble comes."

¹² For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good, Because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

¹⁸ Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? will you indeed be to me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?

¹⁰ Who is among you who fears Yahweh, who obeys the voice of his servant? He who walks in darkness, and has no light, let him trust in the name of Yahweh, and rely on his God.

¹¹ Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.

¹⁸ Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

¹⁷ Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

⁸ He has walled up my way so that I can't pass, And has set darkness in my paths.

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

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