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1 - Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?

2 - For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

3 - I--I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

4 - Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

5 - Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

6 - For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

7 - For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

8 - Yet I--I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

9 - Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

10 - Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.

11 - To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high <FI>in<Fi> safety.

12 - Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

13 - Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

14 - By day they meet darkness, And as night--they grope at noon.

15 - And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,

16 - And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

17 - Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

18 - For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

19 - In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.

20 - In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.

21 - When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.

22 - At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

23 - (For with sons of the field <FI>is<Fi> thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)

24 - And thou hast known that thy tent <FI>is<Fi> peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,

25 - And hast known that numerous <FI>is<Fi> Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;

26 - Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

27 - Lo, this--we searched it out--it <FI>is<Fi> right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!