| 1. | Call now! Will anyone respond to you? To which of the holy ones will you appeal? |
| 2. | Nay, impatience kills the fool and indignation slays the simpleton. |
| 3. | I have seen a fool spreading his roots, but his household suddenly decayed. |
| 4. | His children shall be far from safety; they shall be crushed at the gate without a rescuer. |
| 5. | What they have reaped the hungry shall eat up; (or God shall take it away by blight;) and the thirsty shall swallow their substance. |
| 6. | For mischief comes not out of the earth, nor does trouble spring out of the ground; |
| 7. | But man himself begets mischief, as sparks fly upward. |
| 8. | In your place, I would appeal to God, and to God I would state my plea. |
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| 10. | He gives rain upon the earth and sends water upon the fields; |
| 11. | He sets up on high the lowly, and those who mourn he exalts to safety. |
| 12. | He frustrates the plans of the cunning, so that their hands achieve no success; |
| 13. | He catches the wise in their own ruses, and the designs of the crafty are routed. |
| 14. | They meet with darkness in the daytime, and at noonday they grope as though it were night. |
| 15. | But the poor from the edge of the sword and from the hand of the mighty, he saves. |
| 16. | Thus the unfortunate have hope, and iniquity closes her mouth. |
| 17. | Happy is the man whom God reproves! The Almighty's chastening do not reject. |
| 18. | For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands give healing. |
| 19. | Out of six troubles he will deliver you, and at the seventh no evil shall touch you. |
| 20. | In famine he will deliver you from death, and in war from the threat of the sword; |
| 21. | From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden, and shall not fear approaching ruin. |
| 22. | At destruction and want you shall laugh; the beasts of the earth you need not dread. |
| 23. | You shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild beasts shall be at peace with you. |
| 24. | And you shall know that your tent is secure; taking stock of your household, you shall miss nothing. |
| 25. | You shall know that your descendants are many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth. |
| 26. | You shall approach the grave in full vigor, as a shock of grain comes in at its season. |
| 27. | Lo, this we have searched out; so it is! This we have heard, and you should know. |
