¹⁸ The way of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn,
    which shines ever brighter until the full light of day.

¹³ “Wicked people rebel against the light.
    They refuse to acknowledge its ways
    or stay in its paths.
¹⁴ The murderer rises in the early dawn
    to kill the poor and needy;
    at night he is a thief.
¹⁵ The adulterer waits for the twilight,
    saying, ‘No one will see me then.’
    He hides his face so no one will know him.
¹⁶ Thieves break into houses at night
    and sleep in the daytime.
    They are not acquainted with the light.
¹⁷ The black night is their morning.
    They ally themselves with the terrors of the darkness.

²⁹ For they hated knowledge
    and chose not to fear the Lord.

¹⁷ For you refuse my discipline
    and treat my words like trash.

¹⁰ How you hate honest judges!
    How you despise people who tell the truth!
¹¹ You trample the poor,
    stealing their grain through taxes and unfair rent.
Therefore, though you build beautiful stone houses,
    you will never live in them.
Though you plant lush vineyards,
    you will never drink wine from them.