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1 - “Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2 - For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

3 - I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4 - His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

5 - whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

6 - For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

7 - but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

8 - “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

9 - who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

10 - who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

11 - so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

12 - He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

13 - He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

14 - They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

15 - But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

16 - So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

17 - “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

18 - For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.

19 - He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.

20 - In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

21 - You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

22 - At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

23 - For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

24 - You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

25 - You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

26 - You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

27 - Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good.”