So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.

In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

Therefore he knoweth their works, and he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.