51“Call now; is there any who will answer you?To which of the holy ones will you turn?+2For resentment kills the foolish man,and jealousy kills the simple.+3I have seen the foolish taking root,but suddenly I cursed his habitation.+4His children are far from safety.They are crushed in the gate.Neither is there any to deliver them,+5whose harvest the hungry eats up,and take it even out of the thorns.The snare gapes for their substance.+6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,neither does trouble spring out of the ground;+7but man is born to trouble,as the sparks fly upward.+8“But as for me, I would seek God.I would commit my cause to God,+9who does great things that can’t be fathomed,marvelous things without number;+10who gives rain on the earth,and sends waters on the fields;+11so that he sets up on high those who are low,those who mourn are exalted to safety.+12He frustrates the plans of the crafty,So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.+13He takes the wise in their own craftiness;the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.+14They meet with darkness in the day time,and grope at noonday as in the night.+15But he saves from the sword of their mouth,even the needy from the hand of the mighty.+16So the poor has hope,and injustice shuts her mouth.+17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.+18For he wounds, and binds up.He injures, and his hands make whole.+19He will deliver you in six troubles;yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.+20In famine he will redeem you from death;in war, from the power of the sword.+21You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.+22At destruction and famine you shall laugh,neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.+23For you shall be allied with the stones of the field.The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.+24You shall know that your tent is in peace.You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.+25You shall know also that your offspring shall be great,Your offspring as the grass of the earth.+26You shall come to your grave in a full age,like a shock of grain comes in its season.+27Look this, we have searched it, so it is.Hear it, and know it for your good.”+Footnotes (1)
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