'Night' in the Bible

“Let the day on which I was born perish,And the night which announced: ‘There is a man-child conceived.’

“As for that night, let darkness seize it;Let it not rejoice among the days of the year;Let it not be counted in the number of the months.

“Behold, let that night be barren [and empty];Let no joyful voice enter it.

“Amid disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night,When deep sleep falls on men,

“In the daytime they meet in darkness,And at noon they grope as in the night.

“When I lie down I say,‘When shall I arise [and the night be gone]?’But the night continues,And I am continually tossing until the dawning of day.

“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].

“He flies away like a dream and cannot be found;Yes, he is chased away like a vision of the night.

“They spend the night naked, without clothing,And have no covering against the cold.

“The murderer rises at dawn;He kills the poor and the needy,And at night he becomes a thief.

“Terrors overtake him like a [suddenly rising] flood;A windstorm steals him away in the night.

‘My root is spread out and open to the waters,And the dew lies all night upon my branch.

“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

“In a dream, a vision of the night [one may hear God’s voice],When deep sleep falls on menWhile slumbering upon the bed,

“Therefore He knows of their works,And He overthrows them in the night,So that they are crushed and destroyed.

“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,Who gives songs [of rejoicing] in the night,

“Do not long for the night,When people vanish from their places.

So that light may take hold of the corners of the earthAnd shake the wickedness out of it?