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Chapter 5 |
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1 | Call now, if there be any that will
answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? |
| 2 | For wrath
killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. |
| 3 | I have
seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. |
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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 | Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and
taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their
substance. |
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| Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither
doth trouble spring out of the ground; |
| 7 | Yet man is born unto trouble,
as the sparks fly upward. |
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8 | I would seek unto God, and unto God
would I commit my cause: |
| 9 | Which doeth great things and unsearchable;
marvellous things without number: |
| 10 | Who giveth rain upon the
earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: |
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11 | To set up on high those
that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. |
| 12 | He
disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform
their enterprise. |
| 13 | He taketh the wise in their own craftiness:
and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. |
| 14 | They meet
with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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| 15 | But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the
hand of the mighty. |
| 16 | So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth
her mouth. |
| 17
| Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore
despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: |
| 18 | For he
maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. |
| 19 |
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch
thee. |
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In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the
power of the sword. |
| 21 | Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the
tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. |
| 22 |
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the
beasts of the earth. |
| 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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| 24 | And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou
shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. |
| 25 | Thou shalt
know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the
earth. |
| 26
| Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a
shock of corn cometh in in his season. |
| 27 | Lo this, we have searched it,
so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good. |
