- 1. Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?
- 2. For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
- 3. I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
- 4. Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
- 5. Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
- 6. For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
- 7. For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
- 8. Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
- 9. Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.
- 10. Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
- 11. To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high `in' safety.
- 12. Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
- 13. Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
- 14. By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.
- 15. And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,
- 16. And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
- 17. Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
- 18. For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.
- 19. In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.
- 20. In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.
- 21. When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.
- 22. At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.
- 23. (For with sons of the field `is' thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)
- 24. And thou hast known that thy tent `is' peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,
- 25. And hast known that numerous `is' Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;
- 26. Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.
- 27. Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it `is' right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!
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