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Now call; will anyone answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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For anger will kill a fool, and wrath will kill a naive person.
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I have seen a fool taking root, and suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
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May his sons distance themselves from salvation, and may they be crushed in the gate without a rescuer.
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The hungry shall eat his harvest, and he will take it for the one saved from his weapons, and one of the thirsty shall swallow their riches.
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For not from the dust does ruin emerge, and not from the soil does trouble spring,
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because man is born for trouble, but flying creatures fly upward.
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But I would seek of God, and to God I would commit my cause,
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Who does things great and unsearchable, wonders without number,
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Who gives rain upon the face of the land and sends water upon the face of outside places,
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to place the humble on high, and those blackened are exalted by salvation.
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He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands do not carry out their plans.
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He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the crooked is hasty.
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By day, they meet darkness, and they grope at noon as at night.
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And He saved [them] from the sword of their mouth, and the needy from the hand of the mighty.
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So it was hope for the poor, and libel shut its mouth.
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Behold, fortunate is the man whom God reproves; so do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
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For He brings pain and binds it; He wounds, and His hands heal.
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In six troubles He will save you, and in the seventh no harm will touch you.
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In famine, He redeemed you from death, and in war, from the power of the sword.
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You shall be hidden from the scourging tongue, and you shall not fear plunder when it comes.
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You shall mock plunder and hoarding, and you shall not fear the beasts of the land.
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But you have a treaty with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field made peace with you.
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Then you shall know that there is peace in your tent, and you shall visit your habitation and miss nothing.
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And you shall know that your seed shall be many, and your offspring [as numerous] as the grass of the earth.
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You shall come to the grave at a ripe old age, as the grain stack is taken away in its time.
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Behold this; we have inquired into it, so it is. Listen to it, and you-know for yourself. "
