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 trouble, as the sparks fly
upward. |
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 |
He taketh the wise in their own
craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
1 Cor 3:19
|
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. |