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5:1  Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and to which of the kadoshim (holy ones) wilt thou turn?
5:2  For ka’as (anger) killeth the foolish man, and kinah (envy) slayeth the simple one.
5:3  I have seen the fool taking shoresh (root), but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
5:4  His banim are far from yesha (safety, salvation), and they are crushed in the sha’ar (gate, before the public), neither is there any to deliver them.
5:5  Whose katzir (harvest) the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even from among of the tzinnim (thorns), and the intriguer pants after their wealth.
5:6  Although affliction springeth not forth of the aphar (dust), neither doth amal (trouble, tzoros) sprout out of the adamah;
5:7  Yet adam is born unto amal (trouble, tzoros), even as sparks fly upward.
5:8  I would seek El (G-d), and before Elohim would I lay my cause;
5:9  Who doeth gedolot unsearchable, marvellous things without mispar;
5:10  Who giveth matar upon eretz, and sendeth mayim upon the fields;
5:11  To set up on high those that be the shefalim (the lowly ones); that those which mourn may be exalted to safety,
5:12  Thwarting the machshevot of the arumim (crafty ones), so that their hands cannot accomplish tushiyyah (success).
5:13  He taketh the chachamim in their own arum (craftiness), and the etzah of the wily is swiftly swept away.
5:14  They meet with choshech in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the lailah,
5:15  But He saveth the needy from the cherev of their mouth, and from the yad chazak.
5:16  So the poor hath tikveh, and olatah (perversity, wickedness) stoppeth her mouth.
5:17  Hinei, ashrei is the enosh whom Eloah correcteth; therefore despise not thou the musar (chastening) of Shaddai;
5:18  For He woundeth, and bindeth up; He injureth, and His yadayim (hands) heal.
5:19  He shall deliver thee in shesh tzoros; yea, in shivah there shall no rah touch thee.
5:20  In ra’av (famine) He shall redeem thee from mavet; and in milchamah from the power of the cherev.
5:21  Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the leshon, neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
5:22  At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the chayyat ha’aretz.
5:23  For thou shalt be in league with the avanim of the sadeh, and the chayyat sadeh shall be hashelemah (at peace) with thee.
5:24  And thou shalt know that shalom shall be thy ohel; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and find nothing wanting.
5:25  Thou shalt know also that thy zera shall be rav, and thine offspring as the esev ha’aretz.
5:26  Thou shalt come to thy kever in a ripe age, like a shock of grain cometh in its season.
5:27  Hinei zot, this we have searched out, so it is; hear it, and apply thou it for thy good.