¹² They change the night into day;
‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.

^14 (A)The murderer rises with the light;
He kills the poor and needy;
And in the night he is like a thief.
^15 (B)The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
^(C)Saying, ‘No eye will see me’;
And he ^[a]disguises his face.
¹⁶ In the dark they break into houses
Which they marked for themselves in the daytime;
^(D)They do not know the light.

^13 (A)When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’
¹⁴ Then You scare me with dreams
And terrify me with visions,

³ So I have been allotted ^(A)months of futility,
And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.
^4 (B)When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise,
And the night be ended?’
For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.