“Behold, let that night be barren [and empty];
Let no joyful voice enter it.

“For the company of the godless is barren,
And fire consumes the tents of bribery (wrong and injustice).

“He preys on the barren (childless) woman
And does no good for the widow.

“They are gaunt with want and famine;
They gnaw the dry and barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation.