1. “Call out, please, is there anyone to answer you? And to which of the set-apart ones would you turn?
2. For wrath kills the fool, and envy slays the simple.
3. I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly his home was cursed.
4. His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, with no one to deliver.
5. The hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the snare snaps up their wealth.
6. For evil does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground;
7. for man is born for trouble, and the sparks fly upward.
8. But as for me, I would seek Ěl, and I would submit my case to Elohim,
9. who is doing great and unsearchable deeds, innumerable wonders,
10. who is giving rain on the earth’s face, and is sending waters on the field’s face;