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| [1]Crye I pray thee, if there be any that will aunswere thee, & loke thou vpon any of the holy |
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| [2]As for the foolish ma, wrathfulnesse killeth him, and enuie slayeth the ignorant |
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| [3]I haue seene my selfe when the foolish was deepe rooted, and sodenly I cursed his habitation |
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| [4]His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them |
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| [5]His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie |
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| [6]Neither commeth sorowe out of the ground |
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| [7]But man is borne vnto labour, like as the sparkes flee vp [out of the hot coles, |
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| [8]But I woulde aske counsell at the Lorde, and talke with God |
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| [9]Whiche doth great thinges and vnsearcheable, [and] maruels without number |
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| [10]He geueth rayne vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes |
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| [11]To set vp them that be of lowe degree, and that those which are in heauinesse may be exalted to saluation |
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| [12]He destroyeth the deuices of the subtyll, so that their handes are not able to perfourme that which they do enterprise |
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| [13]He compasseth the wise in their owne craftinesse, & maketh foolishe the counsell of the wicked |
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| [14]They runne into darknesse by fayre day, and grope at the noone day as in the night |
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| [15]But he deliuereth the poore from the sworde, from their threatninges, and from the violence of the mightie |
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| [16]He is the hope of the poore, & the mouth of the wicked shalbe stopped |
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| [17]Behold, blessed is the man whom God correcteth, therefore refuse not thou the chastening of the almightie |
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| [18]For be maketh a wounde and he healeth: he smiteth, and his hande maketh whole againe |
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| [19]He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, & in the seuenth there shall no euil come to thee |
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| [20]In hunger he shall saue thee from death, and when it is warre, from the power of the sworde |
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| [21]Thou shalt be hyd from the scourge of the tongue, & when destruction commeth thou shalt not neede to feare |
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| [22]In destruction and dearth thou shalt be mery, and shalt not be afrayde of the beastes of the earth |
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| [23]For the stones of the land shalbe confederate with thee, and the beastes of the fielde shalbe at peace with thee |
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| [24]And thou shalt knowe that thy dwelling place shalbe in rest, and thou shalt visite thy habitation, & shalt not sinne |
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| [25]Thou shalt see also that thy seede shall be great, and thy posteritie as the grasse vpon the earth |
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| [26]Thou shalt come also to thy graue in a full age, like a corne sheafe cut downe in due season |
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| [27]Lo, this we our selues haue proued by experience, and euen thus it is: Hearken thou to it also, that thou mayest take heede to thy selfe |
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