And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
5:2For vexation killeth the foolish man,
And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
5:3I have seen the foolish taking root:
But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
5:4His children are far from safety,
And they are crushed in the gate,
Neither is there any to deliver them:
5:5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,
And taketh it even out of the thorns;
And the snare gapeth for their substance.
5:6For affliction cometh not forth from the dust,
Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
5:7But man is born unto trouble,
As the sparks fly upward.
5:8But as for me, I would seek unto God,
And unto God would I commit my cause;
5:9Who doeth great things and unsearchable,
Marvellous things without number:
5:10Who giveth rain upon the earth,
And sendeth waters upon the fields;
5:11So that he setteth up on high those that are low,
And those that mourn are exalted to safety.
5:12He frustrateth the devices of the crafty,
So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
5:13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness;
And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
5:14They meet with darkness in the day-time,
And grope at noonday as in the night.
5:15But he saveth from the sword of their mouth,
Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
And iniquity stoppeth her mouth. \\ \\
5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:
Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up;
He woundeth, and his hands make whole.
5:19He will deliver thee in six troubles;
Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
5:20In famine he will redeem thee from death;
And in war from the power of the sword.
5:21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue;
Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
5:22At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh;
Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
5:23For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field;
And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
5:24And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace;
And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
5:25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great,
And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
5:26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,
Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
5:27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is;
Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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