1Call <07121> (8798) now, if there be <03426> any that will answer <06030> (8802) thee; and to which of the saints <06918> wilt thou turn <06437> (8799)_? {turn: or, look?}
2For wrath <03708> killeth <02026> (8799) the foolish man <0191>_, and envy <07068> slayeth <04191> (8686) the silly one <06601> (8802)_. {envy: or, indignation}
3I have seen <07200> (8804) the foolish <0191> taking root <08327> (8688)_: but suddenly <06597> I cursed <05344> (8799) his habitation <05116>_.
4His children <01121> are far <07368> (8799) from safety <03468>_, and they are crushed <01792> (8691) in the gate <08179>_, neither [is there] any to deliver <05337> (8688) [them].
5Whose harvest <07105> the hungry <07457> eateth up <0398> (8799)_, and taketh <03947> (8799) it even out <0413> of the thorns <06791>_, and the robber <06782> swalloweth up <07602> (8804) their substance <02428>_.
6Although affliction <0205> cometh not forth <03318> (8799) of the dust <06083>_, neither doth trouble <05999> spring out <06779> (8799) of the ground <0127>_; {affliction: or, iniquity}
7Yet man <0120> is born <03205> (8795) unto trouble <05999>_, as the sparks <01121> <07565> fly <05774> (8800) upward <01361> (8686)_. {trouble: or, labour} {sparks...: Heb. the sons of the burning coal lift up to fly}
8I would seek <0199> <01875> (8799) unto God <0410>_, and unto God <0430> would I commit <07760> (8799) my cause <01700>_:
9Which doeth <06213> (8802) great things <01419> and unsearchable <0369> <02714>_; marvellous things <06381> (8737) without number <04557>_: {unsearchable: Heb. there is no search} {without...: Heb. till there be no number}
10Who giveth <05414> (8802) rain <04306> upon <06440> the earth <0776>_, and sendeth <07971> (8802) waters <04325> upon <06440> the fields <02351>_: {fields: Heb. outplaces}
11To set up <07760> (8800) on high <04791> those that be low <08217>_; that those which mourn <06937> (8802) may be exalted <07682> (8804) to safety <03468>_.
12He disappointeth <06565> (8688) the devices <04284> of the crafty <06175>_, so that their hands <03027> cannot perform <06213> (8799) [their] enterprise <08454>_. {their enterprise: or, any thing}
13He taketh <03920> (8802) the wise <02450> in their own craftiness <06193>_: and the counsel <06098> of the froward <06617> (8737) is carried headlong <04116> (8737)_.
14They meet <06298> (8762) with darkness <02822> in the daytime <03119>_, and grope <04959> (8762) in the noonday <06672> as in the night <03915>_. {meet...: or, run into}
15But he saveth <03467> (8686) the poor <034> from the sword <02719>_, from their mouth <06310>_, and from the hand <03027> of the mighty <02389>_.
16So the poor <01800> hath hope <08615>_, and iniquity <05766> stoppeth <07092> (8804) her mouth <06310>_.
17Behold, happy <0835> [is] the man <0582> whom God <0433> correcteth <03198> (8686)_: therefore despise <03988> (8799) not thou the chastening <04148> of the Almighty <07706>_:
18For he maketh sore <03510> (8686)_, and bindeth up <02280> (8799)_: he woundeth <04272> (8799)_, and his hands <03027> make whole <07495> (8799)_.
19He shall deliver <05337> (8686) thee in six <08337> troubles <06869>_: yea, in seven <07651> there shall no evil <07451> touch <05060> (8799) thee.
20In famine <07458> he shall redeem <06299> (8804) thee from death <04194>_: and in war <04421> from the power <03027> of the sword <02719>_. {power: Heb. hands}
21Thou shalt be hid <02244> (8735) from the scourge <07752> of the tongue <03956>_: neither shalt thou be afraid <03372> (8799) of destruction <07701> when it cometh <0935> (8799)_. {from...: or, when the tongue scourgeth}
22At destruction <07701> and famine <03720> thou shalt laugh <07832> (8799)_: neither shalt thou be afraid <03372> (8799) of the beasts <02416> of the earth <0776>_.
23For thou shalt be in league <01285> with the stones <068> of the field <07704>_: and the beasts <02416> of the field <07704> shall be at peace <07999> (8717) with thee.
24And thou shalt know <03045> (8804) that thy tabernacle <0168> [shall be] in peace <07965>_; and thou shalt visit <06485> (8804) thy habitation <05116>_, and shalt not sin <02398> (8799)_. {thy tabernacle...: or, peace is thy tabernacle} {sin: or, err}
25Thou shalt know <03045> (8804) also that thy seed <02233> [shall be] great <07227>_, and thine offspring <06631> as the grass <06212> of the earth <0776>_. {great: or, much}
26Thou shalt come <0935> (8799) to [thy] grave <06913> in a full age <03624>_, like as a shock of corn <01430> cometh in <05927> (8800) in his season <06256>_. {cometh in: Heb. ascendeth}
27Lo this, we have searched <02713> (8804) it, so it [is]; hear <08085> (8798) it, and know <03045> (8798) thou [it] for thy good. {for...: Heb. for thyself}