'Night' in the Bible

“Let the day perish on which I was to be born,And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’

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

“Behold, let that night be barren;Let no joyful shout enter it.

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

“By day they meet with darkness,And grope at noon as in the night.

“When I lie down I say,‘When shall I arise?’But the night continues,And I am continually tossing until dawn.

“They make night into day, saying,‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.

“He flies away like a dream, and they cannot find him;Even like a vision of the night he is chased away.

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

“The murderer arises at dawn;He kills the poor and the needy,And at night he is as a thief.

“Terrors overtake him like a flood;A tempest steals him away in the night.

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

“From want and famine they are gauntWho gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

“At night it pierces my bones within me,And my gnawing pains take no rest.

“In a dream, a vision of the night,When sound sleep falls on men,While they slumber in their beds,

“Therefore He knows their works,And He overthrows them in the night,And they are crushed.

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

“Do not long for the night,When people vanish in their place.

“Will the wild ox consent to serve you,Or will he spend the night at your manger?