³² So now, get up by night, you and your people, and keep watch in the field secretly;

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.

¹⁷ For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

⁴ He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

¹² Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

¹³ Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;

¹⁴ Take your chance with us, and we will all have one money-bag:

¹⁵ My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:

¹⁶ For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.

¹⁶ For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

¹⁵ Their feet are quick in running after blood;