| 5:1: "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? |
| 5:2: For resentment kills the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple. |
| 5:3: I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation. |
| 5:4: His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, |
| 5:5: Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance. |
| 5:6: For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, Neither does trouble spring out of the ground; |
| 5:7: But man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward. |
| 5:8: "But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause; |
| 5:9: Who does great things that can't be fathomed, Marvelous things without number; |
| 5:10: Who gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields; |
| 5:11: So that he sets up on high those who are low, Those who mourn are exalted to safety. |
| 5:12: He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise. |
| 5:13: He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. |
| 5:14: They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night. |
| 5:15: But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty. |
| 5:16: So the poor has hope, And injustice shuts her mouth. |
| 5:17: "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. |
| 5:18: For he wounds, and binds up; He injures, and his hands make whole. |
| 5:19: He will deliver you in six troubles; Yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you. |
| 5:20: In famine he will redeem you from death; In war, from the power of the sword. |
| 5:21: You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, Neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes. |
| 5:22: At destruction and famine you shall laugh, Neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth. |
| 5:23: For you shall be in league with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you. |
| 5:24: You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing. |
| 5:25: You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth. |
| 5:26: You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like a shock of grain comes in its season. |
| 5:27: Look this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know it for your good." |
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