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| [1]Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn? |
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| [2]For anger killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. |
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| [3]I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed. |
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| [4]His children are far from safety, and are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them. |
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| [5]Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance. |
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| [6]For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; |
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| [7]But man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. |
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| [8]But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause; |
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| [9]Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number; |
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| [10]Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields; |
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| [11]So that He setteth up on high those that are low, and those that mourn are exalted to safety. |
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| [12]He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial. |
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| [13]He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong. |
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| [14]They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope at noonday as in the night. |
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| [15]But He saveth from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. |
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| [16]So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
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| [17]Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty. |
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| [18]For He maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and His hands make whole. |
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| [19]He will deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. |
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| [20]In famine He will redeem thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword. |
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| [21]Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. |
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| [22]At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. |
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| [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. |
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| [24]And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing. |
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| [25]Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. |
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| [26]Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season. |
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| [27]Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good. |
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