5Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they must go out scavenging for food in the wilderness for their children to their work; rising early for a prey for them. 6They glean every grain in the field; and gather the vintage of. 7The wicked cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. 8They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and hug the rock for lack of a shelter. 9They snatch the orphan from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor. 10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry; 11Within their walls they make oil, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst. 12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out; yet God lays not folly to them.

13They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths. 14The murderer rises at dawn and kills the poor and needy, and at night he is a thief. 15The eye also of the adulterer waits for twilight, saying, ‘No eye shall see me’; and disguises his face. 16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they avoid the light. 17For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one identifies them, they are in danger of the shadow of death.

18He is as swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he beholds not the way of the vineyards. 19Drought and heat consume the snow waters; as the grave consumes those who have sinned. 20The mother shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him until he is no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree. 21He abuses the and preys upon the childless woman; and does not good to the widow. 22He draweth also the mighty with his power; he riseth up, and no man is sure of life. 23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he rests; yet His eyes are upon their ways. 24They are exalted for a little while, but are brought low and gone; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of grain. 25And if this is not so, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?