4. His children are far from safety; [involved in their father's ruin] they are crushed in the [court of justice in the city's] gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
5. His harvest the hungry eat and take it even [when it grows] among the thorns; the snare opens for [his] wealth.
6. For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring forth out of the ground.
7. But man is born to trouble as the sparks and the flames fly upward.
8. As for me, I would seek God and inquire of and require Him, and to God would I commit my cause–
9. Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
10. Who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields,
11. So that He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn He lifts to safety.
12. He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise or anything of [lasting] worth.
13. He catches the [so-called] wise in their own trickiness, and the counsel of the schemers is brought to a quick end. [I Cor. 3:19, 20.]
14. In the daytime they meet in darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night.