²¹ before I go to a land of darkness and gloom,^(A)
never to return.
²² It is a land of blackness like the deepest darkness,
gloomy and chaotic,
where even the light is like^[a] the darkness.”

²² He reveals mysteries from the darkness
and brings the deepest darkness into the light.^(A)

³ A miner puts an end to the darkness;
he probes^[a] the deepest recesses
for ore in the gloomy darkness.