- 1. Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?
- 2. Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.
- 3. I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,
- 4. His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, & none shall deliuer them.
- 5. The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.
- 6. For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.
- 7. But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.
- 8. But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:
- 9. Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.
- 10. He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
- 11. And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.
- 12. He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.
- 13. He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
- 14. They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.
- 15. But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,
- 16. So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.
- 17. Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.
- 18. For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.
- 19. He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.
- 20. In famine he shal deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.
- 21. Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.
- 22. But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.
- 23. For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shal be at peace with thee.
- 24. And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.
- 25. Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.
- 26. Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.
- 27. Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.
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