¹⁰ Lacking clothes, they go about naked;^(A)
    they carry the sheaves,^(B) but still go hungry.
¹¹ They crush olives among the terraces^[a];
    they tread the winepresses,^(C) yet suffer thirst.^(D)
12 The groans of the dying rise from the city,
    and the souls of the wounded cry out for help.^(E)
    But God charges no one with wrongdoing.^(F)

¹³ “There are those who rebel against the light,^(G)
    who do not know its ways
    or stay in its paths.^(H)
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
    kills^(I) the poor and needy,^(J)
    and in the night steals forth like a thief.^(K)
15 The eye of the adulterer^(L) watches for dusk;^(M)
    he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’^(N)
    and he keeps his face concealed.
¹⁶ In the dark, thieves break into houses,^(O)
    but by day they shut themselves in;
    they want nothing to do with the light.^(P)
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
    they make friends with the terrors^(Q) of darkness.^(R)

¹⁸ “Yet they are foam^(S) on the surface of the water;^(T)
    their portion of the land is cursed,^(U)
    so that no one goes to the vineyards.^(V)
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,^(W)
    so the grave^(X) snatches away those who have sinned.
²⁰ The womb forgets them,
    the worm^(Y) feasts on them;^(Z)
the wicked are no longer remembered^(AA)
    but are broken like a tree.^(AB)
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman,
    and to the widow they show no kindness.^(AC)
22 But God drags away the mighty by his power;^(AD)
    though they become established,^(AE) they have no assurance of life.^(AF)
23 He may let them rest in a feeling of security,^(AG)
    but his eyes^(AH) are on their ways.^(AI)
24 For a little while they are exalted, and then they are gone;^(AJ)
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;^(AK)
    they are cut off like heads of grain.^(AL)

²⁵ “If this is not so, who can prove me false
    and reduce my words to nothing?”^(AM)

¹³ “Woe^(A) to him who builds^(B) his palace by unrighteousness,
    his upper rooms by injustice,
making his own people work for nothing,
    not paying^(C) them for their labor.