1. “Call now, is there anyone answering you? And to which of the holy ones will you turn?
2. For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill the simple.
3. I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
4. His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer—
5. whose harvest the hungry eats, and he takes it from behind the thorns; and the thirsty pants after their wealth.
6. Indeed, mischief does not come from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
7. But a human being is born to trouble, and they soar aloft like sparks.
8. “But I myself will seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.
9. He is doing great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number—
10. the one who is giving rain on the surface of the earth and is sending water on the surface of the fields,
11. to set the lowly on high, and those mourning are lifted to safety.
12. He is frustrating the devices of the crafty, and their hands do not achieve success.
13. He is capturing the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are rushed.
14. In the daytime they meet with darkness, and they grope at noon as in the night.
15. And he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the strong.