5 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee;
and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
² For wrath killeth the foolish man,
and envy slayeth the silly one.
³ I have seen the foolish taking root:
but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
⁴ His children are far from safety,
and they are crushed in the gate,
neither is there any to deliver them.
⁵ Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,
and taketh it even out of the thorns,
and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
⁶ Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust,
neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
⁷ yet man is born unto trouble,
as the sparks fly upward.

⁸ I would seek unto God,
and unto God would I commit my cause:
⁹ which doeth great things and unsearchable;
marvellous things without number:
¹⁰ who giveth rain upon the earth,
and sendeth waters upon the fields:
¹¹ to set up on high those that be low;
that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:
therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
¹⁸ for he maketh sore, and bindeth up:
he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
¹⁹ He shall deliver thee in six troubles:
yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
²⁰ In famine he shall redeem thee from death:
and in war from the power of the sword.
²¹ Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue:
neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.