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5:1  Call now! Will anyone respond to you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
5:2  Surely impatience kills the fool and indignation slays the simpleton.
5:3  I have seen a fool spreading his roots, but I cursed his household suddenly:
5:4  May his children be far from safety; may they be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.
5:5  What they have reaped may the hungry eat up, or God take away by blight, or the thirsty swallow their substance.
5:6  For not from dust does mischief come, nor from the soil does trouble sprout.
5:7  Human beings beget mischief as sparks fly upward.
5:8  In your place, I would appeal to God, and to God I would state my plea.
5:9  He does things great and unsearchable, things marvelous and innumerable.
5:10  He gives rain upon the earth and sends water upon the fields;
5:11  He sets up the lowly on high, and those who mourn are raised to safety.
5:12  He frustrates the plans of the cunning, so that their hands achieve no success;
5:13  He catches the wise in their own ruses, and the designs of the crafty are routed.
5:14  They meet with darkness in the daytime, at noonday they grope as though it were night.
5:15  But he saves the poor from the sword of their mouth, from the hand of the mighty.
5:16  Thus the needy have hope, and iniquity closes its mouth.
5:17  Happy the one whom God reproves! The Almighty’s discipline do not reject.
5:18  For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands give healing.
5:19  Out of six troubles he will deliver you, and at the seventh no evil shall touch you.
5:20  In famine he will deliver you from death, and in war from the power of the sword;
5:21  From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden, and you shall not fear approaching ruin.
5:22  At ruin and want you shall laugh; the beasts of the earth, do not fear.
5:23  With the stones of the field shall your covenant be, and the wild beasts shall be at peace with you.
5:24  And you shall know that your tent is secure; taking stock of your household, you shall miss nothing.
5:25  You shall know that your descendants are many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth.
5:26  You shall approach the grave in full vigor, as a shock of grain comes in at its season.
5:27  See, this we have searched out; so it is! This we have heard, and you should know.