10 They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out; yet God layeth not folly to them.

13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me; and disguiseth his face.

16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime; they know not the light.

17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death; if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth; he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth the grave those which have sinned.

20 The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

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