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