Job 23:17

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Help, Yahweh; for the godly man ceases. For the faithful fail from among the children of men.

For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.

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

He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out. He has made my chain heavy.

when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,

Waters flowed over my head. I said, “I am cut off.”

He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Therefore he poured the fierceness of his anger on him, and the strength of battle. It set him on fire all around, but he didn’t know. It burned him, but he didn’t take it to heart.”

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!

Don’t weep for the dead. Don’t bemoan him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away, for he will return no more, and not see his native country.

He has walled up my ways with cut stone. He has made my paths crooked.

For you threw me into the depths, in the heart of the seas. The flood was all around me. All your waves and your billows passed over me.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

It will happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your offspring after you, who will be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom.

“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.

You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Mark the perfect man, and see the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace.

He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Therefore behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she can’t find her way.

Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

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

Your father has deceived me, and changed my wages ten times, but God didn’t allow him to hurt me.

Yahweh said to Moses, “Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers. This people will rise up and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land where they go to be among them, and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them.

When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.

‘Therefore behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes will not see all the evil which I will bring on this place.’ ” ’ ” So they brought this message back to the king.

“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul,

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

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away.

He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

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

The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.

He will be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

The heavens will reveal his iniquity. The earth will rise up against him.

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

or darkness, so that you can not see, and floods of waters cover you.

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

Then I said, ‘I will die in my own house, I will count my days as the sand.

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

He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword; they will die without knowledge.

Yes, he would have allured you out of distress, into a wide place, where there is no restriction. That which is set on your table would be full of fatness.

From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

“Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover you?

Deep calls to deep at the noise of your waterfalls. All your waves and your billows have swept over me.

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

You have taken my friends from me. You have made me an abomination to them. I am confined, and I can’t escape.

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

He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke away their chains.

The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Whoever curses his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.

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.

and look to the earth, and see distress, darkness, and the gloom of anguish. They will be driven into thick darkness.

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

The righteous perish, and no one lays it to heart. Merciful men are taken away, and no one considers that the righteous is taken away from the evil.

Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it deep darkness.

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

Therefore their way will be to them as slippery places in the darkness. They will be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil on them, even the year of their visitation,” says Yahweh.

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

This was fulfilled the same hour on Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from men, and ate grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky, until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.

He was driven from the sons of men, and his heart was made like the animals’, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of the sky; until he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that he sets up over it whomever he will.

but the children of the Kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”

wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.