Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.

May the day I was born perish, and the night when they said, “A boy is conceived.”

If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year or be listed in the calendar.

Yes, may that night be barren; may no joyful shout be heard in it.

For that night did not shut the doors of my mother’s womb, and hide sorrow from my eyes.

Among unsettling thoughts from visions in the night, when deep sleep descends on men,

They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night.

So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

They turned night into day and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

He will fly away like a dream and never be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.

Without clothing, they spend the night naked, having no covering against the cold.

The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy, and by night he becomes a thief.

Terrors overtake him like a flood; a storm wind sweeps him away at night.

My roots will have access to water, and the dew will rest on my branches all night.

Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night.

Night pierces my bones, but my gnawing pains never rest.

No stranger had to spend the night on the street, for I opened my door to the traveler.

In a dream, a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber on their beds,

They die suddenly in the middle of the night; people shudder, then pass away. Even the mighty are removed without effort.

Therefore, He recognizes their deeds and overthrows them by night, and they are crushed.

But no one asks, “Where is God my Maker, who provides us with songs in the night,

Do not long for the night when nations will disappear from their places.

Would the wild ox be willing to serve you? Would it spend the night by your feeding trough?

It lives on a cliff where it spends the night; its stronghold is on a rocky crag.