^5:1 Call now, is there any who will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn? ^5:2 For vexation kills the foolish man and jealousy slays the silly one. ^5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling. ^5:4 His sons are far from safety and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, ^5:5 whose harvest the hungry eat up and takes it even out of the thorns and the snare pants for their substance.

    ^5:6 For affliction does not come out from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground, ^5:7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

    ^5:8 But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause, ^5:9 who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number, ^5:10 who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields, ^5:11 so that he sets up on high those who are low and those who mourn are exalted to safety.

    ^5:12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ^5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. ^5:14 They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.

    ^5:15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ^5:16 So a poor man has hope and unrighteousness stops her mouth.

    ^5:17 Behold, fortunate is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise you the chastening of the Almighty. ^5:18 For he injures and binds up. He wounds and his hands make whole.

    ^5:19 He will deliver you in six troubles. Yes, in seven there will no evil touch you. ^5:20 In famine he will redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword. ^5:21 You will be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

    ^5:22 At destruction and dearth you will laugh, nor will you be afraid of the beasts of the earth. ^5:23 For you will be in covenant with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you. ^5:24And you will know that your tent is in peace and you will visit your fold and will miss nothing.

    ^5:25 You will know also that your seed will be great and your offspring as the grass of the earth. ^5:26 You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

    ^5:27 Behold this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it and know it for your good.