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"Others have been with those who rebel against the light; They do not want to know its ways Nor stay in its paths.

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

"The murderer arises at dawn; He kills the poor and the needy, And at night he is like a thief.

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

"The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight, Saying, 'No eye will see me.' And he disguises his face.

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

"In the darkness they dig into houses, They shut themselves up by day; They do not know the light.

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

"For the morning is the same to him as thick darkness, For he is familiar with the terrors of thick darkness.

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.