⁵ They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

¹ I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?

³ If the foundations are destroyed, What can the righteous do?

¹³ Who forsake the paths of uprightness, To walk in the ways of darkness;

⁴ Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on Yahweh?

¹¹ But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn't know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

¹⁹ However God's firm foundation stands, having this seal, "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let every one who names the name of the Lord{TR reads "Christ" instead of "the Lord"} depart from unrighteousness."

²⁸ Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

³⁵ Jesus therefore said to them, "Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn't overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn't know where he is going.

¹⁹ This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.

⁹ Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

⁷ For the vineyard of Yahweh of Hosts is the house of Israel, And the men of Judah his pleasant plant: And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; For righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.

¹⁶ Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

¹⁴ The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness--and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

¹⁹ The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.

²⁹ Because they hated knowledge, And didn't choose the fear of Yahweh.

³ The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.

⁴ Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people as they eat bread, And don't call on God?