'Light' in the Bible
“May that day be darkness;Let God above not care about it,Nor light shine on it.
“Let the stars of its early dawn be dark;Let the morning wait in vain for the light,Let it not see the eyelids of morning (the day’s dawning),
“Or like a miscarriage which is hidden and put away, I would not exist,Like infants who never saw light.
“Why is the light given to him who is in misery,And life to the bitter in soul,
“Why is the light of day given to a man whose way is hidden,And whom God has hedged in?
The [sunless] land of utter gloom as darkness itself,[The land] of the shadow of death, without order,And [where] it shines as [thick] darkness.”
“He uncovers mysteries [that are difficult to grasp and understand] out of the darknessAnd brings black gloom and the shadow of death into light.
“They grope in darkness without light,And He makes them stagger like a drunken man.”
“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].
“Indeed, the light of the wicked will be put out,And the flame of his fire will not shine.
“The light will be dark in his tent,And his lamp beside him will be put out.
“He is driven and propelled from light into darkness,And chased from the inhabited world.
Or darkness, so that you cannot see,And a flood of water covers you.
“You will also decide and decree a thing, and it will be established for you;And the light [of God’s favor] will shine upon your ways.
“Others have been with those who rebel against the light;They do not want to know its waysNor stay in its paths.
“The murderer rises at dawn;He kills the poor and the needy,And at night he becomes a thief.
“Is there any number to His [vast celestial] armies?And upon whom does His light not rise?
“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the watersAt the boundary between light and darkness.
“Man dams up the streams from flowing [so that they do not trickle into the mine],And what is hidden he brings out to the light.
When His lamp shone upon my headAnd by His light I walked through darkness;
“I smiled at them when they did not believe,And they did not diminish the light of my face.
“When I expected good, then came evil [to me];And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
‘God has redeemed my life from going to the pit [of destruction],And my life shall see the light.’”
To bring his life back from the pit [of destruction],That he may be enlightened with the light of the living.
“Now people cannot look at the light when it is bright in the skies [without being blinded],When the wind has passed and cleared them.
So that light may take hold of the corners of the earthAnd shake the wickedness out of it?
“Their light is withheld from the wicked,And the uplifted arm is broken.
“Where is the way where light dwells?And as for darkness, where is its place,
“Where is the way that the light is distributed,Or the east wind scattered over the earth?
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