| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Call now, is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn? |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"For anger slays the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3"I have seen the foolish taking root, And I cursed his abode immediately. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"His sons are far from safety, They are even oppressed in the gate, And there is no deliverer. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5"His harvest the hungry devour And take it to a place of thorns, And the schemer is eager for their wealth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6"For affliction does not come from the dust, Nor does trouble sprout from the ground, |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For man is born for trouble, As sparks fly upward. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"But as for me, I would seek God, And I would place my cause before God; |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"He gives rain on the earth And sends water on the fields, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So that He sets on high those who are lowly, And those who mourn are lifted to safety. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"He frustrates the plotting of the shrewd, So that their hands cannot attain success. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"He captures the wise by their own shrewdness, And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"By day they meet with darkness, And grope at noon as in the night. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"But He saves from the sword of their mouth, And the poor from the hand of the mighty. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"So the helpless has hope, And unrighteousness must shut its mouth. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Behold, how happy is the man whom God reproves, So do not despise the discipline of the Almighty. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"For He inflicts pain, and gives relief; He wounds, and His hands also heal. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"From six troubles He will deliver you, Even in seven evil will not touch you. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"In famine He will redeem you from death, And in war from the power of the sword. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, And you will not be afraid of violence when it comes. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"You will laugh at violence and famine, And you will not be afraid of wild beasts. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"For you will be in league with the stones of the field, And the beasts of the field will be at peace with you. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24"You will know that your tent is secure, For you will visit your abode and fear no loss. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"You will know also that your descendants will be many, And your offspring as the grass of the earth. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"You will come to the grave in full vigor, Like the stacking of grain in its season. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"Behold this; we have investigated it, and so it is. Hear it, and know for yourself." |
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