4 No one enters suit justly;no one goes to law honestly;they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5 They hatch adders’ eggs;they weave the spider’s web;he who eats their eggs dies,and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
6 Their webs will not serve as clothing;men will not cover themselves with what they make.Their works are works of iniquity,and deeds of violence are in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil,and they are swift to shed innocent blood;their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;desolation and destruction are in their highways.
8 The way of peace they do not know,and there is no justice in their paths;they have made their roads crooked; no one who treads on them knows peace.
9 Therefore justice is far from us,and righteousness does not overtake us; we hope for light, and behold, darkness,and for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10 We grope for the wall like the blind;we grope like those who have no eyes;we stumble at noon as in the twilight, among those in full vigor we are like dead men.