1. Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and to which of the kadoshim (holy ones) wilt thou turn?
2. For ka'as (anger) killeth the foolish man, and kinah (envy) slayeth the simple one.
3. I have seen the fool taking shoresh (root), but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4. His banim are far from yesha (safety, salvation), and they are crushed in the sha'ar (gate, before the public), neither is there any to deliver them.
5. Whose katzir (harvest) the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even from among of the tzinnim (thorns), and the intriguer pants after their wealth.
6. Although affliction springeth not forth of the aphar (dust), neither doth amal (trouble, tzoros) sprout out of the adamah;
7. Yet adam is born unto amal (trouble, tzoros), even as sparks fly upward.
8. I would seek El (G-d), and before Elohim would I lay my cause;
9. Who doeth gedolot unsearchable, marvellous things without mispar;
10. Who giveth matar upon eretz, and sendeth mayim upon the fields;
11. To set up on high those that be the shefalim (the lowly ones); that those which mourn may be exalted to safety,
12. Thwarting the machshevot of the arumim (crafty ones), so that their hands cannot accomplish tushiyyah (success).
13. He taketh the chachamim in their own arum (craftiness), and the etzah of the wily is swiftly swept away.