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.
14. They meet with choshech in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the lailah,
15. But He saveth the needy from the cherev of their mouth, and from the yad chazak.
16. So the poor hath tikveh, and olatah (perversity, wickedness) stoppeth her mouth.
17. Hinei, ashrei is the enosh whom Eloah correcteth; therefore despise not thou the musar (chastening) of Shaddai;