²³ He wanders about^(A) for food like a vulture;^(B)
    he knows the day of darkness^(C) is at hand.^(D)

¹⁴ Darkness^(A) comes upon them in the daytime;
    at noon they grope as in the night.^(B)

¹⁷ For all of them, midnight is their morning;
    they make friends with the terrors^(A) of darkness.^(B)

¹⁵ The wicked are denied their light,^(A)
    and their upraised arm is broken.^(B)

⁵ You will not fear^(A) the terror of night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,

⁸ all of them wearing the sword,
    all experienced in battle,
each with his sword at his side,
    prepared for the terrors of the night.^(A)