¹⁷ yet I am not silenced because of the darkness,
    nor because thick darkness covers my face.

⁸ He has ^(A)walled up my way, so that I cannot pass,
    and he has set darkness upon my paths.

57 The righteous man perishes,
    and no one lays it to heart;
^(A)devout men are taken away,
    while no one understands.
For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;

¹¹ or ^(A)darkness, so that you cannot see,
    and a ^(B)flood of ^(C)water covers you.

^18 (A)He is thrust from light into darkness,
    and driven out of the world.

⁶ The light is ^(A)dark in his tent,
    and his lamp above him is put out.

²² He does not believe that he will return out of darkness,
    and he is marked for the sword.

⁹ that it would ^(A)please God to crush me,
    that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!