¹³ “There are those who rebel ^(A)against the light,
    who are not acquainted with its ways,
    and do not stay in its paths.
¹⁴ The murderer rises before it is light,
    that he ^(B)may kill the poor and needy,
    and in the night he is like a thief.
¹⁵ The eye of the adulterer also waits for ^(C)the twilight,
    saying, ‘No ^(D)eye will see me’;
    and he veils his face.
¹⁶ In the dark they ^(E)dig through houses;
    by day they shut themselves up;
    they do not know the light.
¹⁷ For ^(F)deep darkness is morning to all of them;
    for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.

¹⁸ “You say, ^(G)‘Swift are they on the face of the waters;
    their portion is cursed in the land;
    no treader turns toward their vineyards.
¹⁹ Drought and heat snatch away the snow waters;
    so does ^(H)Sheol those who have sinned.
²⁰ The womb forgets them;
    the worm finds them sweet;
they are ^(I)no longer remembered,
    so wickedness is broken like ^(J)a tree.’

²¹ “They wrong the barren, childless woman,
    and do no good to the widow.
²² Yet God^[a] prolongs the life of the mighty by his power;
    they rise up when they despair of life.
²³ He gives them security, and they are supported,
    and his ^(K)eyes are upon their ways.
²⁴ They are exalted ^(L)a little while, and then ^(M)are gone;
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
    they are ^(N)cut off like the heads of grain.
²⁵ If it is ^(O)not so, who will prove me a liar
    and show that there is nothing in what I say?”

² “Dominion and fear are with God;^[b]
    he makes peace in his high heaven.
³ Is there any number to his ^(Q)armies?
    Upon whom does his ^(R)light not arise?
⁴ How then can man be ^(S)in the right before God?
    How can he who is ^(T)born of woman be ^(U)pure?
⁵ Behold, even the moon is not bright,
    and the stars are not pure in his eyes;
^6 (V)how much less man, who is ^(W)a maggot,
    and ^(X)the son of man, who is a worm!”

² “How you have ^(Y)helped him who has no power!
    How you have saved ^(Z)the arm that has no strength!
³ How you have ^(AA)counseled him who has no wisdom,
    and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
⁴ With whose help have you uttered words,
    and whose breath ^(AB)has come out from you?
⁵ The ^(AC)dead tremble
    under the waters and their inhabitants.
⁶ Sheol is ^(AD)naked before God,^[c]
    and ^(AE)Abaddon has no covering.
⁷ He ^(AF)stretches out the north over ^(AG)the void
    and hangs the earth on nothing.
⁸ He ^(AH)binds up the waters in his thick clouds,
    and the cloud is not split open under them.
⁹ He covers the face of the full moon^[d]
    and ^(AI)spreads over it his cloud.
¹⁰ He has inscribed ^(AJ)a circle on the face of the waters
    at the boundary between light and darkness.
^11 (AK)The pillars of heaven tremble
    and are astounded at his ^(AL)rebuke.
¹² By his power he ^(AM)stilled the sea;
    by his understanding he shattered ^(AN)Rahab.
^13 (AO)By his wind the heavens were made fair;
    his hand pierced ^(AP)the fleeing serpent.
¹⁴ Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ^(AQ)ways,
    and how small ^(AR)a whisper do we hear of him!
    But the thunder of his power who can understand?”