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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.

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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.

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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.

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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness:
and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

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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.

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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.

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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.