5. Behold, as wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their children.
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12. Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
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13. They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
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15. The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
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16. In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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17. For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.
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18. He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.
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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.
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24. They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
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