- 1. ¶ CALL now, I pray you; is there any one to answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn?
- 2. For anger kills the foolish man, and enmity slays the silly one.
- 3. I have seen the wicked prosper; but his habitation is suddenly destroyed.
- 4. His children are far from salvation, and they are humiliated at the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
- 5. His harvest the hungry eat up; and they shall pour out water to the thirsty, and the thirsty devour their substance.
- 6. ¶ For falsehood does not come forth from the dust, nor does iniquity spring out of the ground;
- 7. For man is born for trouble, as sure as the wild birds fly.
- 8. But as for me. I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause,
- 9. Who has done great things without limit; and marvellous things without number.
- 10. Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends water upon the streets;
- 11. To set up on high those that are lowly; and the meek shall be exalted by salvation.
- 12. He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot wisely perform their enterprise.
- 13. He takes the wise in their subtlety; and the counsel of the crafty is frustrated.
- 14. They handle things in the daytime as though they were in darkness, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
- 15. But he saves their lives from the sword, and the poor from the hand of the mighty.
- 16. So there shall be hope for the poor, but the wicked shall shut his mouth.
- 17. ¶ Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; and he who does not despise the chastening of the Almighty;
- 18. For it is he who wounds, and binds up; he smites, and his hands heal.
- 19. He shall deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
- 20. In famine he shall deliver you from death; and in war from the power of the sword.
- 21. You shall be protected from the scourge of the tongue; and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes.
- 22. At plunder and famine you shall laugh; and you shall not fear the wild beasts.
- 23. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field; and the wild beasts shall surrender to you.
- 24. You shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall return to your habitation, and shall not sin.
- 25. You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth.
- 26. You shall come to your grave gently, like a shock of grain in its season.
- 27. Lo this thing we have searched, and it is so; we have heard it; and you know it for your good.
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