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¹ "Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
² For wrath kills the foolish person,
and anger slays the silly one.
³ I myself have seen the fool taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.
⁴ His children are far from safety,
and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered,
nor is there anyone to deliver them.
⁵ The hungry eat up his harvest,
and take it even from behind the thorns,
and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
⁶ For evil does not come up from the dust,
nor does trouble spring up from the ground,
⁷ but people are born to trouble,
as surely as the sparks fly upward.

⁸ "But as for me, I would seek God,
and to God I would set forth my case.
⁹ He does great and unsearchable things,
marvelous things without number;
¹⁰ he gives rain on the earth,
and sends water on the fields;
¹¹ he sets the lowly on high,
that those who mourn are raised to safety.
¹² He frustrates the plans of the crafty
so that their hands cannot accomplish
what they had planned!
¹³ He catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.
¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime,
and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
¹⁵ So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth,
even the poor from the hand of the powerful.
¹⁶ Thus the poor have hope,
and iniquity shuts its mouth.
¹⁷ "Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects,
so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
¹⁸ For he wounds, but he also bandages;
he strikes, but his hands also heal.
¹⁹ He will deliver you from six calamities;
yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
²⁰ In time of famine he will redeem you from death,
and in time of war from the power of the sword.
²¹ You will be protected from malicious gossip,
and will not be afraid of the destruction when it comes.
²² You will laugh at destruction and famine
and need not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
²³ For you will have a pact with the stones of the field,
and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
²⁴ And you will know that your home will be secure,
and when you inspect your domains,
you will not be missing anything.
²⁵ You will also know that your children will be numerous,
and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
²⁶ You will come to your grave in a full age,
As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.
²⁷ Look, we have investigated this, so it is true.
Hear it, and apply it for your own good."