| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Berean Study Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him— |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.” |
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