✧Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? ✧2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. ✧3I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ✧4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [them]. ✧5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. ✧6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; ✧7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. ✧8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: ✧9Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: ✧10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: ✧11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. ✧12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise. ✧13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. ✧14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. ✧15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. ✧16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. ✧17Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: ✧18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. ✧19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. ✧20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. ✧21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. ✧22At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. ✧23For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. ✧24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [shall be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. ✧25Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. ✧26Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. ✧27Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is;] hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good.