yet I am not silenced because of the darkness, nor because thick darkness covers my face.
He has walled up my way, so that I cannot pass, and he has set darkness upon my paths.
The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;
or darkness, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
The light is dark in his tent, and his lamp above him is put out.
He does not believe that he will return out of darkness, and he is marked for the sword.
that it would please God to crush me, that he would let loose his hand and cut me off!
Therefore, behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you shall be gathered to your grave in peace, and your eyes shall not see all the disaster that I will bring upon this place.’” And they brought back word to the king.
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