¹ Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn? ² For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays 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 eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their wealth. ⁶ Although affliction comes not forward of the dust, neither does 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 Which does great things and unsearchable marvellous things without number ¹⁰ Who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields ¹¹ To set up on high those that be low that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. ¹² He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the perverse is carried headlong. ¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. ¹⁵ But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth. ¹⁷ See, happy is the man who God corrects: therefore despise not the disciplining of the Almighty ¹⁸ For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole. ¹⁹ He will deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there will no evil touch you. ²⁰ In famine he will redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword. ²¹ you will be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes. ²² At destruction and famine you will laugh: neither will you be afraid of the beasts of the earth. ²³ For you will be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you. ²⁴ And you will know that your tabernacle will be in peace; and you will visit your habitation, and will not sin. ²⁵ you will know also that your seed will be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth. ²⁶ you will come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season. ²⁷ Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you [it] for your good.