5. Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
6. For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7. But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
8. But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
9. Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
10. Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
11. So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.
12. He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
14. They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
15. But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16. So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.