9. They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge from the poor.
10. They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaves from the hungry;
11. Who make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, yet suffer thirst.
12. Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded cries out: yet God charges not folly to them.
13. They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not its ways, nor abide in its paths.
14. The murderer rising with the light kills the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
15. The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguises his face.
16. In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
17. For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one recognizes them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
18. They are swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: no one turns into the way of the vineyards.
19. Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so does the grave those who have sinned.
20. The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21. He evil treats the barren that bears not: and does not good to the widow.
22. He draws also the mighty with his power: he rises up, but no man is sure of life.
23. Though it be given him to be in safety, he rests; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24. They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all others, and cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.