
1 CALL NOW–is there any who will answer you? And to which of the holy [angels] will you turn?
2 For vexation and rage kill the foolish man; jealousy and indignation slay the simple.
4 His children are far from safety; [involved in their father's ruin] they are crushed in the [court of justice in the city's] gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
6 For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring forth out of the ground.
7 But man is born to trouble as the sparks and the flames fly upward.
8 As for me, I would seek God and inquire of and require Him, and to God would I commit my cause–
9 Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
10 Who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields,
11 So that He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn He lifts to safety.
13 He catches the [so-called] wise in their own trickiness, and the counsel of the schemers is brought to a quick end. [I Cor. 3:19, 20.]
14 In the daytime they meet in darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night.
16 So the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts her mouth.
22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the living creatures of the earth.
25 You shall know also that your children shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
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