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| 5:1 |
Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
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| 5:2 |
For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
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| 5:3 |
I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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| 5:4 |
His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
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| 5:5 |
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
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| 5:6 |
For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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| 5:7 |
But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
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| 5:8 |
But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
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| 5:9 |
Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
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| 5:10 |
Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
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| 5:11 |
So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.
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| 5:12 |
He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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| 5:13 |
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
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| 5:14 |
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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| 5:15 |
But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
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| 5:16 |
So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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| 5:17 |
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
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| 5:18 |
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole.
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| 5:19 |
He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
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| 5:20 |
In famine he will redeem thee from death; And in war from the power of the sword.
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| 5:21 |
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
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| 5:22 |
At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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| 5:23 |
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
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| 5:24 |
And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
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| 5:25 |
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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| 5:26 |
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
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| 5:27 |
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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