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¹ Call now. Is there anyone answering you? And to which of the saints will you turn?² For vexation kills the fool, and passion causes the simple to die.³ I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.⁴ His sons are far from safety; yea, they are crushed in the gate; nor is there any deliverer.⁵ The hungry eat his harvest, and take him to the thorns, and the snare snuffs up their wealth.

⁶ For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring up out of the ground;⁷ for man is born to trouble, and the sons of the flame rise, flying upward .⁸ Truly, I would seek to God, and to God I would put my plea,⁹ who is doing great things, and there is no searching them ; marvelous things to which is no numbering,¹⁰ giving rain on the face of the earth and sending water on the face of the field;¹¹ to set the lowly on high; yea, the mourners become very high in safety;¹² breaking the plots of the crafty, nor did their hands perform the undertaking.¹³ He takes the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the wily ones is hastened.¹⁴ They meet with darkness by day, and grope in the noonday as in the night.¹⁵ But He saves the needy from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.¹⁶ And there is hope for the weak; and injustice shuts her mouth.

¹⁷ Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects; and despise not the chastisement of the Almighty.¹⁸ For He wounds, and He binds up. He shatters, and His hands heal.¹⁹ He will deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven no evil shall touch you.²⁰ In famine He will redeem you from death; and in war from the hand of the sword.²¹ You shall be hidden from the whip of the tongue; and you shall not be afraid of violence when it comes.²² You shall laugh at violence and at famine; and you shall not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.²³ For you shall be in covenant with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.²⁴ And you shall know that your tent is in peace; and you shall visit your home and shall miss nothing.²⁵ And you shall know that your seed will be numerous, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.²⁶ You shall come to the grave in full vigor, like a stack of grain comes up in its season.²⁷ Consider this. We have searched it out; it is so. Hear it, and know it for yourself.