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5:1  Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the holy ones will you turn?
5:2  For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the simple one.
5:3  I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
5:4  His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5:5  Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their wealth.
5:6  For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
5:7  Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
5:8  I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
5:9  Who does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
5:10  Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields:
5:11  To set up on high those that are low; that those who mourn may be lifted to safety.
5:12  He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.
5:13  He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the cunning is quickly ended.
5:14  They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
5:15  But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and 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 despise not the chastening of the Almighty:
5:18  For he bruises, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
5:19  He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
5:20  In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
5:21  You shall be hid 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 beasts of the earth.
5:23  For you shall be in covenant with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
5:24  And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall find nothing amiss.
5:25  You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and 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 in its season.
5:27  Lo this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.