| 章 |
| 5:1 |
"Call now; is there anyone 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 fools taking root, but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.
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| 5:4 |
Their children are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
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| 5:5 |
The hungry eat their harvest, and they take it even out of the thorns; and the thirsty pant after their wealth.
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| 5:6 |
For misery does not come from the earth, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
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| 5:7 |
but human beings are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward.
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| 5:8 |
"As for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.
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| 5:9 |
He does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number.
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| 5:10 |
He gives rain on the earth and sends waters on 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 needy from the sword of their mouth, from the hand of the mighty.
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| 5:16 |
So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
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| 5:17 |
"How happy is the one whom God reproves; therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
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| 5:18 |
For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.
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| 5:19 |
He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall 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 hidden 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 wild animals of the earth.
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| 5:23 |
For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.
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| 5:24 |
You shall know that your tent is safe, you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
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| 5:25 |
You shall know that your descendants will be many, and your offspring like 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 |
See, we have searched this out; it is true. Hear, and know it for yourself."
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