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 froward is carried headlong.
14. They meet with darkness in the daytime, 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.
17. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19. He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.