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