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[1]Call now, if there is any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
[2]For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
[3]I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
[4]His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
[5]Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
[6]Although affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
[7]Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
[8]I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:
[9]Who doeth great things and unsearchable; wonderful things without number:
[10]Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
[11]To set on high those that are low: that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.
[12]He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
[13]He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
[14]They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.
[15]But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
[16]So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
[17]Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
[18]For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
[19]He will deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
[20]In famine he will redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
[21]Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
[22]At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
[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.
[24]And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle will be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
[25]Thou shalt know also that thy seed will be great, and thy offspring as the grass of the earth.
[26]Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
[27]Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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