| 1: Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to
which of the saints wilt thou turn? |
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| 2: For wrath 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 cursed his
habitation. |
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| 4: His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the
gate, neither is there any to deliver them. |
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| 5: Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of
the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. |
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| 6: Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth
trouble spring out of the ground; |
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| 7: Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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| 8: I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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| 9: Which 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: To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn
may be exalted to safety. |
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| 12: He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their
hands cannot perform their enterprise. |
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| 13: He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel
of the froward is carried headlong. |
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| 14: They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the
noonday as in the night. |
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| 15: But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and
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 shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there
shall no evil touch thee. |
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| 20: In famine he shall 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 tabernacle shall be in peace;
and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. |
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| 25: Thou alt 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 full age, like as a shock
of corn cometh in in his season. |
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| 27: Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know
thou it for thy good. |
