12 From the city the dying groan,and the wounded cry out for help,but God charges no one with wrongdoing.
13 There are those who rebel against the light;they do not know its ways and they do not stay on its paths.
14 Before daybreak the murderer rises up;he kills the poor and the needy;in the night he is like a thief.
15 And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight,thinking, ‘No eye can see me,’and covers his face with a mask.
16 In the dark the robber breaks into houses,but by day they shut themselves in;they do not know the light.
17 For all of them, the morning is to them like deep darkness;they are friends with the terrors of darkness.
18 “You say, ‘He is foam on the face of the waters;their portion of the land is cursedso that no one goes to their vineyard.