- 1. "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
- 2. For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
- 3. I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- 4. His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
- 5. whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
- 6. For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
- 7. but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- 8. "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
- 9. who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
- 10. who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
- 11. so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
- 12. He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
- 13. He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
- 14. They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
- 15. But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
- 16. So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
- 17. "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
- 18. For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.
- 19. He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
- 20. In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
- 21. You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
- 22. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
- 23. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
- 24. You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
- 25. You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
- 26. You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
- 27. Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."
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