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¹ Call now, if there be any that wil answere thee, and to which of the Saints wilt thou turne? ² For wrath killeth the foolish man, and enuy slayeth the silly one. ³ I haue seene the foolish taking roote: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴ His children are farre from safetie, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliuer them. ⁵ Whose haruest the hungry eateth vp, and taketh it euen out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth vp their substance.

⁶ Although affliction commeth not forth of the dust, neither doeth trouble spring out of the ground: ⁷ Yet man is borne vnto trouble, as the sparkes flie vpward. ⁸ I would seeke vnto God, and vnto God would I commit my cause: ⁹ Which doth great things & vnsearchable: marueilous things without number. ¹⁰ Who giueth raine vpon the earth, and sendeth waters vpon the fields: ¹¹ To set vp on high those that be low; that those which mourne, may be exalted to safetie. ¹² Hee disappointeth the deuices of the craftie, so that their hands cannot performe their enterprise. ¹³ He taketh the wise in their owne craftinesse: and the counsell of the froward is caried headlong. ¹⁴ They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope in the noone day as in the night. ¹⁵ But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mightie. ¹⁶ So the poore hath hope, and iniquitie stoppeth her mouth.

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almightie. ¹⁸ For he maketh sore, and bindeth vp: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. ¹⁹ Hee shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, yea in seuen there shall no euill touch thee. ²⁰ In famine he shall redeeme thee from death: and in warre from the power of the sword. ²¹ Thou shalt be hidde from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction, when it commeth. ²² At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. ²³ For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. ²⁴ And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall bee in peace; and thou shalt visite thy habitation, and shalt not sinne. ²⁵ Thou shalt know also that thy seede shalbe great, and thine offspring as the grasse of the earth. ²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy graue in a full age, like as a shocke of corne commeth in, in his season. ²⁷ Loe this, wee haue searched it, so it is; heare it, and know thou it for thy good.