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  • 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."