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5:1  Call now, if there shall be anyone to answer thee; and if there shall be any of the saints for thee to look unto?
5:2  It is certain that wrath kills the foolish man, and envy consumes the covetous one.
5:3  I have seen the foolish taking root, but at the same time I cursed his habitation.
5:4  His sons are far from saving health, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and there shall be no one to deliver them.
5:5  The hungry shall eat up his harvest, and even take it out from among the thorns, and the thirsty shall drink up their substance.
5:6  For the iniquity does not come forth out of the dust; neither does chastisement spring up out of the ground;
5:7  yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
5:8  I would certainly seek God, and unto God would I commit my affairs;
5:9  who does great things that no one can understand, and marvels that have no explanation;
5:10  who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters abroad;
5:11  who sets up the humble on high, that those who mourn may be lifted up with saving health.
5:12  He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
5:13  He takes the wise in their own prudence, and the counsel of his adversaries is turned to folly.
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 the mouth of the wicked, and from the hand of the violent.
5:16  Who is the hope of the poor, and iniquity closes her mouth.
5:17  Behold, blessed is the man whom God chastens; therefore, do not despise not the correction of the Almighty.
5:18  For he makes sore, and binds up; he wounds, and his hands make whole.
5:19  He shall deliver thee in six tribulations, and in the seventh no evil shall touch thee.
5:20  In famine he shall ransom thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
5:21  Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.
5:22  At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth;
5:23  for thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
5:24  And thou shalt know that there is peace in thy tent, and thou shalt visit thy habitation and shalt not sin.
5:25  Thou shalt know that thy seed is great and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
5:26  Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of wheat that is gathered in its season.
5:27  Behold that which we have searched out, so it is; hear it and judge it for thyself.