²² The sun comes up, and they come together, and go back to their secret places to take their rest.

⁸ Then the beasts go into their holes, and take their rest.

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.

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

¹⁷ Your crowned ones are like the locusts, and your scribes like the clouds of insects which take cover in the walls on a cold day, but when the sun comes up they go in flight, and are seen no longer in their place.

²⁰ The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.