10. But the poor must go out with no clothes to protect them;they must go hungry while harvesting wheat.
11. They press olives for oil, and grapes for wine,but they themselves are thirsty.
12. In the cities the wounded and dying cry out,but God ignores their prayers.
13. There are those who reject the light;they don't understand it or go where it leads.
14. At dawn the murderer gets upand goes out to kill the poor,and at night he steals.
15. The adulterer waits for twilight to come;he covers his face so that no one can see him.
16. At night thieves break into houses,but by day they hide and avoid the light.
17. They fear the light of day,but darkness holds no terror for them.
18. The wicked are swept away by floods,and the land they own is under God's curse;they no longer go to work in their vineyards.
19. As snow vanishes in heat and drought,so sinners vanish from the land of the living.
20. Not even their mothers remember them now;they are eaten by worms and destroyed like fallen trees.
21. That happens because they ill-treated widowsand showed no kindness to childless women.
22. God, in his strength, destroys the mighty;God acts — and the wicked die.