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5:1  “Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
5:2  Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
5:3  I have seen fools taking root, but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.
5:4  Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
5:5  The hungry eat their harvest, and they take it even out of the thorns, and the thirsty pant after their wealth.
5:6  For misery does not come from the earth, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
5:7  but humans are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward.
5:8  “As for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.
5:9  He does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number.
5:10  He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;
5:11  he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
5:12  He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
5:13  He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
5:14  They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
5:15  But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth, from the hand of the mighty.
5:16  So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
5:17  “How happy is the one whom God reproves; therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
5:18  For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.
5:19  He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you.
5:20  In famine he will redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword.
5:21  You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
5:22  At destruction and famine you shall laugh and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth.
5:23  For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.
5:24  You shall know that your tent is safe; you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
5:25  You shall know that your descendants will be many and your offspring like the grass of the earth.
5:26  You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.
5:27  See, we have searched this out; it is true. Hear, and know it for yourself.”