Job 38:15–17

¹⁵Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.

⁵Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

¹⁷For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous.

¹⁹The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

²¹¶ And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

²²And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

²³They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

²²Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and will break his arms, the strong, and that which was broken; and I will cause the sword to fall out of his hand.

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

¹⁴They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

¹⁸And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the Lord, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

²¹And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

²²And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.

¹⁶Give glory to the Lord your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

¹⁰And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

¹¹And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

²⁴When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.

⁵Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.

⁶Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.

¹⁹Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

³⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

¹³Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

¹⁸Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.

⁵Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

²²He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

¹⁰Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;

¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.

⁴Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

⁸Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:

¹⁶The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.

³The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.