1“Call now; is there any who will answer you?
2For resentment kills the foolish man,
3I have seen the foolish taking root,
4His children are far from safety.
5whose harvest the hungry eat up,
6For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
7but man is born to trouble,
8“But as for me, I would seek God.
9who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
10who gives rain on the earth,
11so that he sets up on high those who are low,
12He frustrates the plans of the crafty,
13He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
14They meet with darkness in the day time,
15But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
16So the poor has hope,
17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.
18For he wounds and binds up.
19He will deliver you in six troubles;
20In famine he will redeem you from death;
21You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,
22You will laugh at destruction and famine,
23For you will be allied with the stones of the field.
24You will know that your tent is in peace.
25You will know also that your offspring5:25 or, seed will be great,
26You will come to your grave in a full age,
27Behold, we have researched it. It is so.