¹⁷ Your ^(A)princes are ^(B)like grasshoppers,
    ^(C)your scribes^[a] like clouds of locusts
settling on the fences
    in a day of cold—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
    no one knows where they are.

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.