³ Haggard from want and hunger,
    they roamed^[a] the parched land^(A)
    in desolate wastelands^(B) at night.^(C)

⁵ Like wild donkeys^(A) in the desert,
    the poor go about their labor^(B) of foraging food;
    the wasteland^(C) provides food for their children.

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)