16. In the choshech they dig through batim (houses); in the daytime they shut themselves in; they have no da'as of the ohr.
17. For the boker is to them even as the tzalmavet; they are friends with the terrors of tzalmavet.
18. Swiftly vanishing is he on the surface of the mayim; their chelek is cursed in ha'aretz; he turneth no more in the derech of the kramim (vineyards).
19. Drought and heat consume the snow waters; so doth Sheol those which have sinned.