5. Behold, God is mighty, and despiseth not any: he is mighty in strength of understanding.
6. He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth to the afflicted their right.
7. He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings upon the throne he setteth them for ever, and they are exalted.
8. And if they be bound in fetters, and be taken in the cords of affliction;
9. Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
10. He openeth also their ear to instruction, and commandeth that they return from iniquity.
11. If they hearken and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12. But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13. But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: they cry not for help when he bindeth them.
14. They die in youth, and their life perisheth among the unclean.
15. He delivereth the afflicted by his affliction, and openeth their ear in oppression.
16. Yea, he would have led thee away out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17. But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.
18. Because there is wrath, beware lest thou be led away by thy sufficiency; neither let the greatness of the ransom turn thee aside.
19. Will thy riches suffice, that thou be not in distress, or all the forces of thy strength?