Chapter 5
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5:1
- Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
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5:2
- For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
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5:3
- I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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5:4
- His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
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5:5
- Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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5:6
- Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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5:7
- Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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5:8
- I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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5:9
- Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
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5:10
- Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
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5:11
- To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
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5:12
- He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
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5:13
- He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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5:14
- They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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5:15
- But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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5:16
- So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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5:17
- Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
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5:18
- For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
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5:19
- He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
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5:20
- In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
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5:21
- Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
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5:22
- At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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5:23
- For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
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5:24
- And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
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5:25
- Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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5:26
- Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
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5:27
- Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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