³ With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

⁵ Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

¹³ They have been among rebellious ones of light, They have not discerned His ways, Nor abode in His paths.

¹⁴ At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief.

¹⁵ And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret.

¹⁶ He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.

³⁸ of whom the world was not worthy; in deserts wandering, and `in' mountains, and `in' caves, and `in' the holes of the earth;