2. For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
3. I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4. His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
5. whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
6. For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7. but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8. “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
9. who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
10. who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
11. so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
12. He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
13. He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
14. They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15. But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16. So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
17. “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.