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| [1]CALL now, I pray you; is there any one to answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn? |
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| [2]For anger kills the foolish man, and enmity slays the silly one. |
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| [3]I have seen the wicked prosper; but his habitation is suddenly destroyed. |
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| [4]His children are far from salvation, and they are humiliated at the gate, and there is no one to deliver them. |
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| [5]His harvest the hungry eat up; and they shall pour out water to the thirsty, and the thirsty devour their substance |
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| [6]For falsehood does not come forth from the dust, nor does iniquity spring out of the ground; |
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| [7]For man is born for trouble, as sure as the wild birds fly. |
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| [8]But as for me. I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause, |
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| [9]Who has done great things without limit; and marvellous things without number. |
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| [10]Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends water upon the streets; |
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| [11]To set up on high those that are lowly; and the meek shall be exalted by salvation. |
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| [12]He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot wisely perform their enterprise. |
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| [13]He takes the wise in their subtlety; and the counsel of the crafty is frustrated. |
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| [14]They handle things in the daytime as though they were in darkness, and grope in the noonday as in the night. |
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| [15]But he saves their lives from the sword, and the poor from the hand of the mighty. |
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| [16]So there shall be hope for the poor, but the wicked shall shut his mouth |
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| [17]Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; and he who does not despise the chastening of the Almighty; |
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| [18]For it is he who wounds, and binds up; he smites, and his hands heal. |
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| [19]He shall deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you. |
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| [20]In famine he shall deliver you from death; and in war from the power of the sword. |
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| [21]You shall be protected from the scourge of the tongue; and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes. |
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| [22]At plunder and famine you shall laugh; and you shall not fear the wild beasts. |
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| [23]For you shall be in league with the stones of the field; and the wild beasts shall surrender to you. |
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| [24]You shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall return to your habitation, and shall not sin. |
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| [25]You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth. |
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| [26]You shall come to your grave gently, like a shock of grain in its season. |
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| [27]Lo this thing we have searched, and it is so; we have heard it; and you know it for your good |
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