12. He frustrates the plans of the craftyso that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!
13. He catches the wise in their own craftiness,and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.
14. They meet with darkness in the daytime,and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
15. So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth,even the poor from the hand of the powerful.
16. Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.
17. “Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects,so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
18. For he wounds, but he also bandages;he strikes, but his hands also heal.