And did you think that you would not see darkness and that you were not to be overwhelmed by the on-rush of overflowing waters?
Misery, likewise, you would forget, or would remember only like waters that have passed by.
He will expel him from light into darkness, and he will remove him from the world.
Light will become darkness in his tabernacle, and the lamp that is over him will be extinguished.
He has hemmed in my path, and I cannot pass; he has added darkness to my difficult path.
He is nimble on the surface of water. His place on land is to be accursed. May he not walk by way of the vineyards.
Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, so that an onslaught of waters will cover you?
They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.
The way of the impious is darkened. They do not know where they may fall.
And he will gaze downward to the earth, and behold: tribulation and darkness, dissolution and distress, and a pursuing gloom. For he will not be able to fly away from its distress.
ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light.
SADE. The waters have flooded over my head. I said, "I am lost."
And he said: "I cried out to the Lord from my tribulation, and he heeded me. From the belly of hell, I cried out, and you heeded my voice.
But the sons of the kingdom shall be cast into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."