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12 From the city, dying men groan aloud,
    and the wounded cries out for help,
        but God charges no one with wrong.

13 “Then there are those who rebel against the light;
    they are not acquainted with its ways;
        and they don’t stay on its course.[a]
14 The murderer rises at dawn to kill the poor and needy;
    at night, he is like a thief.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 24:13 Or path

12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
    and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.(A)
    But God charges no one with wrongdoing.(B)

13 “There are those who rebel against the light,(C)
    who do not know its ways
    or stay in its paths.(D)
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
    kills(E) the poor and needy,(F)
    and in the night steals forth like a thief.(G)

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