3. I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
4. His sons are far from safety, and crushed at the gate without a deliverer!
5. The hungry consumes his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pants after their wealth.
6. For evil does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground.
7. Yet man is born for trouble, as surely as sparks fly upward.
8. But as for me, I would seek God; I would lay my cause before God.
9. Who does great things beyond comprehension, wonders without number.
10. Who gives rain to the earth and sends water over the plains.
11. Who places the lowly on high and lifts mourners to salvation.
12. Who frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands attain no success.
13. Who catches the clever in their craftiness, and thwarts the plan of the cunning.
14. By day they encounter darkness and grope at noon as if it were night.
15. But He saves the needy from the sword of their mouth, and from the clutches of the mighty.
16. So the helpless have hope and injustice shuts its mouth.
17. Behold, happy is the one whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of Shaddai.
18. For He inflicts pain, but He also binds up; He injures, yet His hands also heal.
19. From six calamities He will deliver you, even in seven, no harm will touch you.
20. In famine, He will redeem you from death, and in war, from the power of the sword.