Call now,
if there be any that will answer thee; and to
which of the saints wilt thou turn?
02 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy
slayeth the silly one.
03 I have seen the foolish taking root: but
suddenly I cursed his habitation.
04 His children are far from safety, and they are
crushed in the gate, neither is there any to
deliver them.
05 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh
it even out of the thorns, and the robber
swalloweth up their substance.
06 Although affliction cometh not forth of the
dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the
ground;
07 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks
fly upward.
08 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I
commit my cause:
09 Which doeth great things and unsearchable;
marvellous things without number:
10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth
waters upon the fields:
11 To set up on high those that be low; that
those which 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 noonday as in the night.
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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 shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in
seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20 In famine he shall 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 shall
be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation,
and shalt not sin.
25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be
great, and thine offspring as the grass of the
earth.
26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,
like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear
it, and know thou it for thy good.
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