| 5:1 | Call now, if there is any that will answer thee; and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn? |
| 5:2 | For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. |
| 5:3 | I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. |
| 5:4 | His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them]. |
| 5:5 | Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. |
| 5:6 | Although affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; |
| 5:7 | Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. |
| 5:8 | I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause: |
| 5:9 | Who doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: |
| 5:10 | Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: |
| 5:11 | To set on high those that are low; that those who mourn may be exalted to safety. |
| 5:12 | He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise. |
| 5:13 | He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. |
| 5:14 | They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noon as in the night. |
| 5:15 | But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. |
| 5:16 | So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
| 5:17 | Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: |
| 5:18 | For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. |
| 5:19 | He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. |
| 5:20 | In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. |
| 5:21 | Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. |
| 5:22 | At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. |
| 5:23 | For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. |
| 5:24 | And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [shall be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. |
| 5:25 | Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great, and thy offspring as the grass of the earth. |
| 5:26 | Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, as a shock of grain cometh in in its season. |
| 5:27 | Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good. |
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