| 5.1 |
“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? |
| 5.2 |
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple. |
| 5.3 |
I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. |
| 5.4 |
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, |
| 5.5 |
whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance. |
| 5.6 |
For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground; |
| 5.7 |
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward. |
| 5.8 |
“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God, |
| 5.9 |
who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number; |
| 5.10 |
who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields; |
| 5.11 |
so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety. |
| 5.12 |
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. |
| 5.13 |
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. |
| 5.14 |
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night. |
| 5.15 |
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. |
| 5.16 |
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. |
| 5.17 |
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. |
| 5.18 |
For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole. |
| 5.19 |
He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you. |
| 5.20 |
In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword. |
| 5.21 |
You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes. |
| 5.22 |
At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth. |
| 5.23 |
For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you. |
| 5.24 |
You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing. |
| 5.25 |
You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth. |
| 5.26 |
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season. |
| 5.27 |
Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good.” |
