²² The sun rises, and they steal away;
    they return and lie down in their dens.^(A)

⁸ The animals take cover;^(A)
    they remain in their dens.^(B)

¹⁷ Your guards are like locusts,^(A)
    your officials like swarms of locusts
    that settle in the walls on a cold day—
but when the sun appears they fly away,
    and no one knows where.

¹³ “There are those who rebel against the light,^(A)
    who do not know its ways
    or stay in its paths.^(B)
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
    kills^(C) the poor and needy,^(D)
    and in the night steals forth like a thief.^(E)
15 The eye of the adulterer^(F) watches for dusk;^(G)
    he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’^(H)
    and he keeps his face concealed.
¹⁶ In the dark, thieves break into houses,^(I)
    but by day they shut themselves in;
    they want nothing to do with the light.^(J)
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
    they make friends with the terrors^(K) of darkness.^(L)