Lexicon :: Strong's H2822 - ḥōšeḵ

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward the sky, so that [fn]darkness may come over the land of Egypt, a darkness which [is so awful that it] may be felt.”

“He guards the feet of His godly (faithful) ones,

But the wicked ones are silenced and perish in darkness;

For a man shall not prevail by might.

“He made darkness [fn]canopies around Him,

A mass of waters, thick clouds of the skies.

“For You, O LORD, are my lamp;

The LORD illumines and dispels my darkness.

“May that day be darkness;

Let God above not care about it,

Nor light shine on it.

“In the daytime they meet in darkness,

And at noon they grope as in the night.

Before I go—and I shall not return—

To the land of darkness and the deep shadow [of death],

“He uncovers mysteries [that are difficult to grasp and understand] out of the darkness

And 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.”

“He does not believe that he will return out of the darkness [for fear of being murdered],

And he is destined for the sword [of God’s vengeance].

“He will not escape from darkness [fleeing disaster];

The flame [of God’s wrath] will wither his branch,

And by the blast of His mouth he will go away.

“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 is driven and propelled from light into darkness,

And chased from the inhabited world.

“He has walled up my way so that I cannot pass,

And He has set darkness upon my paths.

Complete darkness (misfortune) is held in reserve for his treasures.

An unfanned fire will devour him;

It will consume the survivor in his tent.

Or darkness, so that you cannot see,

And a flood of water covers you.

But I am not silenced by the darkness [of these woes that fell on me],

Nor by the thick darkness which covers my face.

“In the dark they dig into [the penetrable walls of] houses;

They shut themselves up by day;

They do not know the light [of day].

“He has inscribed a circular limit (the horizon) on the face of the waters

At the boundary between light and darkness.

“Man puts an end to darkness [by bringing in a light],

And to the farthest bounds he searches out

The rock buried in gloom and deep shadow.

When His lamp shone upon my head

And by His light I walked through darkness;

“There is no darkness nor deep shadow

Where the evildoers may hide themselves.

“Tell us [Job] what words [of man] shall we say to such a Being;

We cannot state our case because of darkness [that is, our ignorance in the presence of the unsearchable God].

“Where is the [fn]way where light dwells?

And as for darkness, where is its place,

He made darkness His hiding place (covering); His pavilion (canopy) around Him,

The darkness of the waters, the thick clouds of the skies.

For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine;

The LORD my God illumines my darkness.

Let their way be dark and slippery,

With the angel of the LORD pursuing and harassing them.

Will Your wonders be known in the darkness?

And Your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness [where the dead forget and are forgotten]?

You [O LORD] make darkness and it becomes night,

In which prowls about every wild beast of the forest.

He sent [thick, oppressive] darkness and made the land dark;

And Moses and Aaron did not rebel against His words.

Some dwelt in darkness and in the deep (deathly) darkness,

Prisoners [bound] in misery and chains,

He brought them out of darkness and the deep (deathly) darkness

And broke their bonds apart.

Light arises in the darkness for the upright;

He is gracious and compassionate and righteous (upright—in right standing with God).

If I say, “Surely the darkness will cover me,

And the night will be the only light around me,”

From those who leave the paths of uprightness

To walk in the ways of darkness;

Whoever curses his father or his mother,

His lamp [of life] will be extinguished in time of darkness.