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