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1 | Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which
of the saints wilt thou turn? |
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2 | For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly
one. |
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3 | I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his
habitation. |
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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 | 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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6 | Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth
trouble spring out of the ground; |
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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: |
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9 | Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things
without number: |
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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. |
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12 | He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their
hands cannot perform their enterprise. |
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13 | He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of
the froward is carried headlong. |
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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. |
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16 | So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
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17 | Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore
despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: |
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18 | For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands
make whole. |
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19 | He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there
shall no evil touch thee. |
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20 | In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the
power of the sword. |
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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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22 | At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou
be afraid of the beasts of the earth. |
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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. |
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25 | Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine
offspring as the grass of the earth. |
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26 | 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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27 | Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou
it for thy good. |
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