3. I’ve seen the foolish take rootand promptly curse their house.
4. Their children are far from safety,crushed in the gate without a deliverer.
5. The hungry devour their crops;it’s taken even from the thorns,and the thirsty pant after their yield.
6. Surely trouble doesn’t come from dust,nor does distress sprout from the ground.
7. Surely humans are born to distress,just as sparks rise up.
8. But I would seek God,put my case to God,
9. who does great things beyond comprehension,wonderful things without number;
10. who provides rain over the earth’s surface,sends water to the open country,
11. exalts the lowly,raises mourners to victory;
12. who frustrates the schemes of the cleverso that their hands achieve no success,
13. trapping the wise in their clevernessso that the plans of the devious don’t succeed.
14. They encounter darkness during the day,and at noon they fumble about as at night.
15. Yet he rescues the orphan from the sword of their mouth,the needy from the grip of the strong;
16. so the poor have hopeand violence shuts its mouth.
17. Look, happy is the person whom God corrects;so don’t reject the Almighty’s instruction.