4 No one calls for justice,nor does anyone plead for truth.They trust in vanity and speak lies;they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch adders’ eggsand weave the spider’s web;he who eats of their eggs dies,and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
6 Their webs shall not become garments,nor shall they cover themselves with their works;their works are works of iniquity,and an act of violence is in their hands.
7 Their feet run to evil,and they make haste to shed innocent blood;their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity;devastation and destruction are in their paths.
8 The way of peace they do not know,and there is no justice in their ways;they have made their paths crooked;whoever walks in them does not know peace.
9 Therefore, justice is far from us,nor does righteousness overtake us;we wait for light, but there is darkness,for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
10 We grope along the wall like the blind,and we grope as if we had no eyes;we stumble at noonday as in the night;among those who are vigorous, we are as dead men.