³ They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

⁵ Like asses in the waste land they go out to their work, looking for food with care; from the waste land they get bread for their children.

¹³ Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.

¹⁴ He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.

¹⁵ And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;

¹⁶ In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.

³⁸ Wandering in waste places and in mountains and in holes in the rocks; for whom the world was not good enough.