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5:1  Call out! Will anyone answer you? Which of the holy ones will you turn to?
5:2  For anger kills a fool, and jealousy slays the gullible.
5:3  I have seen a fool taking root, but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.
5:4  His children are far from safety. They are crushed at the city gate, with no one to rescue them.
5:5  The hungry consume his harvest, even taking it out of the thorns. The thirsty pant for his children’s wealth.
5:6  For distress does not grow out of the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
5:7  But humans are born for trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
5:8  However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and would present my case to him.
5:9  He does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.
5:10  He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.
5:11  He sets the lowly on high, and mourners are lifted to safety.
5:12  He frustrates the schemes of the crafty so that they achieve no success.
5:13  He traps the wise in their craftiness so that the plans of the deceptive are quickly brought to an end.
5:14  They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night.
5:15  He saves the needy from their sharp words and from the clutches of the powerful.
5:16  So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
5:17  See how happy is the person whom God corrects; so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.
5:18  For he wounds but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.
5:19  He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.
5:20  In famine he will redeem you from death, and in battle, from the power of the sword.
5:21  You will be safe from slander and not fear destruction when it comes.
5:22  You will laugh at destruction and hunger and not fear the land’s wild creatures.
5:23  For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
5:24  You will know that your tent is secure, and nothing will be missing when you inspect your home.
5:25  You will also know that your offspring will be many and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
5:26  You will approach the grave in full vigor, as a stack of sheaves is gathered in its season.
5:27  We have investigated this, and it is true! Hear it and understand it for yourself.