²² The sun riseth, they are gathered, And in their dens they crouch.

⁸ And enter doth the beast into covert, And in its habitations it doth continue.

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.

¹⁷ When together, morning `is' to them death shade, When he discerneth the terrors of death shade.

¹⁷ Thy crowned ones `are' as a locust, And thy princes as great grasshoppers, That encamp in hedges in a day of cold, The sun hath risen, and it doth flee away, And not known is its place where they are.

²⁰ for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected;