4 No one sues honestly;no one pleads truthfully.By trusting in emptiness and speaking deceit,they conceive harm and give birth to malice.
5 They hatch adders’ eggs,and weave spiderwebs.Whoever eats their eggs will die.Moreover, the crushed egg hatches a viper.
6 Their webs can’t serve as clothing;they can’t cover themselves with their deeds.Their deeds are deeds of malice,and the work of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil;they rush to shed innocent blood.Their thoughts are thoughts of malice;desolation and destruction litter their highways.
8 They don’t know the way of peace;there’s no justice in their paths.They make their roads crooked;no one who walks in them knows peace.
9 Because of all this, justice is far from us,and righteousness beyond our reach.We expect light, and there is darkness;we await a gleam of light, but walk about in gloom.
10 We grope along the wall like the blind;like those without eyes we grope.We stumble at noonday as if it were twilight,and among the strong as if we were dying.