5:1 Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

5:2 For resentment kills the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple.

5:3 I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

5:4 His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, Takes it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.

5:6 For affliction doesn`t come forth from the dust, Neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

5:7 But man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

5:8 But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;

5:9 Who does great things that can`t be fathomed, Marvelous things without number;

5:10 Who gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields;

5:11 So that he sets up on high those who are low, Those who mourn are exalted to safety.

5:12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can`t perform their enterprise.

5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

5:14 They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

5:15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

5:16 So the poor has hope, And injustice shuts her mouth.

5:17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

5:18 For he wounds, and binds up; He injures, and his hands make whole.

5:19 He will deliver you in six troubles; Yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.

5:20 In famine he will redeem you from death; In war, from the power of the sword.

5:21 You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, Neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

5:22 At destruction and dearth you shall laugh, Neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

5:23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

5:24 You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

5:25 You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

5:26 You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like a shock of grain comes in its season.