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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? |
[1]But call, if any one will hearken to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels. |
| [2]For anger kills the foolish man, and enmity slays the silly one. |
[2]For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray. |
| [3]I have seen the wicked prosper; but his habitation is suddenly destroyed. |
[3]And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured. |
| [4]His children are far from salvation, and they are humiliated at the gate, and there is no one to deliver them. |
[4]Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer. |
| [5]His harvest the hungry eat up; and they shall pour out water to the thirsty, and the thirsty devour their substance |
[5]For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted. |
| [6]For falsehood does not come forth from the dust, nor does iniquity spring out of the ground; |
[6]For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains: |
| [7]For man is born for trouble, as sure as the wild birds fly. |
[7]yet man is born to labour, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places. |
| [8]But as for me. I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause, |
[8]Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all; |
| [9]Who has done great things without limit; and marvellous things without number. |
[9]who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number: |
| [10]Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends water upon the streets; |
[10]who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth: |
| [11]To set up on high those that are lowly; and the meek shall be exalted by salvation. |
[11]who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost: |
| [12]He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot wisely perform their enterprise. |
[12]frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth: |
| [13]He takes the wise in their subtlety; and the counsel of the crafty is frustrated. |
[13]who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty |
| [14]They handle things in the daytime as though they were in darkness, and grope in the noonday as in the night. |
[14]In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night: |
| [15]But he saves their lives from the sword, and the poor from the hand of the mighty. |
[15]and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty. |
| [16]So there shall be hope for the poor, but the wicked shall shut his mouth |
[16]And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped. |
| [17]Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; and he who does not despise the chastening of the Almighty; |
[17]But blessed is the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty. |
| [18]For it is he who wounds, and binds up; he smites, and his hands heal. |
[18]for he causes a man to be in pain, and restores him again: he smites, and his hands heal. |
| [19]He shall deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you. |
[19]Six time he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee. |
| [20]In famine he shall deliver you from death; and in war from the power of the sword. |
[20]In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword. |
| [21]You shall be protected from the scourge of the tongue; and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes. |
[21]He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils. |
| [22]At plunder and famine you shall laugh; and you shall not fear the wild beasts. |
[22]Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts. |
| [23]For you shall be in league with the stones of the field; and the wild beasts shall surrender to you. |
[23]For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. |
| [24]You shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall return to your habitation, and shall not sin. |
[24]Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail. |
| [25]You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth. |
[25]And thou shalt know that thy seed shall be abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field. |
| [26]You shall come to your grave gently, like a shock of grain in its season. |
[26]And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time. |
| [27]Lo this thing we have searched, and it is so; we have heard it; and you know it for your good |
[27]Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything wrong. |