2. For wrath kills the foolish person,and anger slays the silly one.
3. I myself have seen the fool taking root,but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.
4. His children are far from safety,and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered,nor is there anyone to deliver them.
5. The hungry eat up his harvest,and take it even from behind the thorns,and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
6. For evil does not come up from the dust,nor does trouble spring up from the ground,
7. but people are born to trouble,as surely as the sparks fly upward.
8. “But as for me, I would seek God,and to God I would set forth my case.
9. He does great and unsearchable things,marvelous things without number;
10. he gives rain on the earth,and sends water on the fields;
11. he sets the lowly on high,that those who mourn are raised to safety.
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.