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Chapter 5
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Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and
to which of the saints wilt thou turn? |
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For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth
the silly one. |
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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. |
5
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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; |
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Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. |
8
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I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit
my cause: |
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Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous
things without number: |
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Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters
upon the fields: |
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To set up on high those that be low; that those which
mourn may be exalted to safety. |
12
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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that
their hands cannot perform their enterprise. |
13
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the
counsel of the froward is carried headlong. |
14
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They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope
in the noonday as in the night. |
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But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth,
and from the hand of the mighty. |
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So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore
despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: |
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For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and
his hands make whole. |
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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. |
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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither
shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. |
22
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At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither
shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. |
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For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the
field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace
with thee. |
24
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And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in
peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt
not sin. |
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great,
and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. |
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Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as
a shock of corn cometh in in his season. |
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Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and
know thou it for thy good. |
