Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance (5:5)

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; (5:6)

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward (5:7)

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: (5:8)

Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: (5:9)

Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: (5:10)

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety (5:11)

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise (5:12)

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong (5:13)

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night (5:14)

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty (5:15)

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth (5:16)

Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: (5:17)

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole (5:18)

He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee (5:19)

In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword (5:20)

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh (5:21)

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth (5:22)

For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee (5:23)

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle [shall be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin (5:24)

Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth (5:25)

Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season (5:26)

Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good (5:27)

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