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

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

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

² “Dominion and awe belong to God;^(AI)
    he establishes order in the heights of heaven.^(AJ)
3 Can his forces be numbered?
    On whom does his light not rise?^(AK)
4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God?
    How can one born of woman be pure?^(AL)
5 If even the moon^(AM) is not bright
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes,^(AN)
6 how much less a mortal, who is but a maggot—
    a human being,^(AO) who is only a worm!”^(AP)

² “How you have helped the powerless!^(AQ)
    How you have saved the arm that is feeble!^(AR)
3 What advice you have offered to one without wisdom!
    And what great insight^(AS) you have displayed!
⁴ Who has helped you utter these words?
    And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?^(AT)

⁵ “The dead are in deep anguish,^(AU)
    those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
⁶ The realm of the dead^(AV) is naked before God;
    Destruction^[a](AW) lies uncovered.^(AX)
7 He spreads out the northern skies^(AY) over empty space;
    he suspends the earth over nothing.^(AZ)
8 He wraps up the waters^(BA) in his clouds,^(BB)
    yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
⁹ He covers the face of the full moon,
    spreading his clouds^(BC) over it.
¹⁰ He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters^(BD)
    for a boundary between light and darkness.^(BE)
11 The pillars of the heavens quake,^(BF)
    aghast at his rebuke.
¹² By his power he churned up the sea;^(BG)
    by his wisdom^(BH) he cut Rahab^(BI) to pieces.
¹³ By his breath the skies^(BJ) became fair;
    his hand pierced the gliding serpent.^(BK)
14 And these are but the outer fringe of his works;
    how faint the whisper^(BL) we hear of him!^(BM)
    Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”^(BN)