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¹ Call, I pray thee - is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?² For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.³ I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:⁴ His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:⁵ Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

⁶ For sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust, - nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.⁷ Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,⁸ Yet indeed, I, would seek unto El, and, unto Elohim, would I set forth any cause: - ⁹ Who doeth great things, beyond all search, - Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;¹⁰ Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;¹¹ Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;¹² Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;¹³ Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:¹⁴ By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.¹⁵ But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.¹⁶ Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.

¹⁷ Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;¹⁸ For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.¹⁹ In six troubles, he will rescue thee, and, in seven, there shall smite thee no misfortune:²⁰ In famine, he will ransom thee from death, and in battle from the power of the sword;²¹ During the scourge of the tongue, shalt thou be hid, neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh;²² At destruction and at hunger, shalt thou laugh, and, of the wild beast of the earth, be not thou afraid;²³ For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;²⁴ And thou shalt know that, at peace, is thy tent, and shalt visit thy fold, and miss nothing;²⁵ And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.²⁶ Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.²⁷ Lo! as for this, we have searched it out - so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.