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