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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.