²² The sun rises, and they steal away, And lay down in their dens.

⁸ Then the animals take cover, And remain in their dens.

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.

¹⁷ Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

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