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Through want and hard hunger
    they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;

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Like wild asses in the desert
    they go out to their toil,
scavenging in the wasteland
    food for their young.(A)

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38 of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains and in caves and holes in the ground.(A)

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13 “There are those who rebel against the light,
    who are not acquainted with its ways
    and do not stay in its paths.(A)
14 The murderer rises at dusk
    to kill the poor and needy
    and in the night is like a thief.(B)
15 The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight,
    saying, ‘No eye will see me,’
    and he disguises his face.(C)
16 In the dark they dig through houses;
    by day they shut themselves up;
    they do not know the light.(D)

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