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| 5:1 |
Call, I pray thee! Is there any that answereth thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
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| 5:2 |
For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.
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| 5:3 |
I myself saw 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, and there is no deliverer:
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| 5:5 |
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.
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| 5:6 |
For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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| 5:7 |
For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
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| 5:8 |
But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God 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 on the face of the earth, and sendeth waters on the face of the fields;
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| 5:11 |
Setting up on high those that are low; and mourners are exalted to prosperity.
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| 5:12 |
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
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| 5:13 |
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:
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| 5:14 |
They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
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| 5:15 |
And he saveth the needy from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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| 5:16 |
So the poor hath what he hopeth for, and unrighteousness stoppeth her mouth.
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| 5:17 |
Behold, happy is the man whom +God correcteth; therefore despise not 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, and 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 hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
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| 5:22 |
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, and of the beasts of the earth thou shalt not be afraid.
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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 wilt survey thy fold, and miss nothing.
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| 5:25 |
And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thine offspring as the herb of the earth.
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| 5:26 |
Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.
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| 5:27 |
Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thyself.
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