12. Men groan from out of the city, and the souls of the dead cry out; yet God did not hinder them.
13. They are among those that rebel against the light; they have never known its ways nor abided in its paths.
14. The murderer rises with the light, kills the poor and the needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15. The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguises his face.
16. In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they do not know the light.
17. For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if they are known, the terrors of the shadow of death come over them.
18. They are swift upon the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; they never come by the way of the vineyards.
19. Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so does Sheol consume those who have sinned.
20. The Merciful One shall forget them; the worm shall feed sweetly on them; they shall never be remembered again; and iniquity shall be broken as a tree.
21. He afflicted the barren woman that did not conceive and never did good unto the widow.
22. He furthered the violent with his power; he did not lend to anyone in his life.