²⁰ She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom.

¹³ "These are of those who rebel against the light; They don't know the ways of it, Nor abide in the paths of it.

¹⁴ The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.

¹⁵ The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.

¹⁶ In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don't know the light.

¹⁷ For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, For they know the terrors of the thick darkness.

¹¹ If I say, "Surely the darkness will overwhelm me; The light around me will be night;"

²⁵ but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel{darnel is a weed grass (probably bearded darnel or lolium temulentum) that looks very much like wheat until it is mature, when the difference becomes very apparent.} also among the wheat, and went away.

²⁰ For everyone who does evil hates the light, and doesn't come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.