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