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¹ Call now, if there is any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?² For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.³ I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.⁴ His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them].⁵ Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

⁶ Although affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;⁷ Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.⁸ I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:⁹ Who doeth great things and unsearchable; wonderful things without number:¹⁰ Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:¹¹ To set on high those that are low: that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.¹² He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.¹³ He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.¹⁵ But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.¹⁶ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

¹⁷ Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:¹⁸ For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.¹⁹ He will deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.²⁰ In famine he will redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.²¹ Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.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 [will be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.²⁵ Thou shalt know also that thy seed [will be] great, and thy offspring as the grass of the earth.²⁶ Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.²⁷ Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good.