| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Call out if you please. Will anyone answer you? Which of the holy ones will you turn to? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For anger kills a fool, and jealousy slays the gullible. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I have seen a fool taking root, but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4His children are far from safety. They are crushed at the city gate, with no one to rescue them. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The hungry consume his harvest, even taking it out of the thorns. The thirsty pant for his children's wealth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For distress does not grow out of the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the ground. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7But mankind is born for 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 would present my case to Him. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He 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 to the fields. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He sets the lowly on high, and mourners are lifted to safety. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12He frustrates the schemes of the crafty so that they achieve no success. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13He traps the wise in their craftiness so that the plans of the deceptive are quickly brought to an end. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14They encounter darkness by day, and they grope at noon as if it were night. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15He saves the needy from their sharp words 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] | 17See how happy the man is God corrects; so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For He crushes but also binds up; 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 power of the sword. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21You will be safe from slander and not fear destruction when it comes. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You will laugh at destruction and hunger and not fear the animals 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 nothing will be missing when you inspect your home. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25You will also know that your offspring will be many and your descendants like the grass of the earth. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26You will approach the grave in full vigor, as a stack of sheaves is gathered in its season. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27We have investigated this, and it is true! Hear it and understand it for yourself. |
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