^[1]  Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?

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^[2]  For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays 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 eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.

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

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

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

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^[9]  Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:

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^[10]  Who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on 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 disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

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

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

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

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^[16]  So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

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

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^[18]  For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.

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

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

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^[21]  You shall be hid from the whip of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

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

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^[23]  For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

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

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^[25]  You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

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^[26]  You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season.

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^[27]  See this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.

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