Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
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For anger killeth the foolish man, And envy slayeth the silly one.
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I have seen the foolish taking root; But suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed.
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His children are far from safety, And are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them.
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
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For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
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But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
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Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number;
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Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
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So that He setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.
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He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can perform nothing substantial.
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the wily is carried headlong.
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They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night. .
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But He saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
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For He maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and His hands make whole.
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He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
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In famine He will redeem thee from death; And in war from the power of the sword.
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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
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At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
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And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age, Like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
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Lo this, we have searched it, So it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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