^[1]  CALL now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

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^[2]  For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

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^[3]  I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

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^[4]  His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

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^[5]  Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

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^[6]  Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

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^[7]  Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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^[8]  I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

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^[9]  Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

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^[10]  Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

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^[11]  To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

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^[12]  He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

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^[13]  He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

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^[14]  They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

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^[15]  But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

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^[16]  So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

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^[17]  Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

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^[18]  For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

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^[19]  He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

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^[20]  In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

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^[21]  Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

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^[22]  At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

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^[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.

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^[24]  And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

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^[25]  Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

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^[26]  Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

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^[27]  Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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