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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.