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\c 5
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\p
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\q
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\v 1 Call out now; is there anyone who will answer you?
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\q To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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\q
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\v 2 For anger kills the foolish man;
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\q jealousy kills the silly one.
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\q
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\v 3 I have seen a foolish person taking root,
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\q but suddenly I cursed his home.
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\q
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\v 4 His children are far from safety;
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\q they are crushed in the city gate.
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\q There is no one to rescue them—
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\q
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\v 5 those whose harvest is eaten up by others who are hungry,
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\q people who take it even out of the thorns;
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\q those whose wealth is consumed by people thirsty for it.
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\q
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\v 6 For difficulties do not come out from the soil;
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\q neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
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\q
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\v 7 but mankind makes his own trouble,
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\q just as sparks fly upward.
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\b
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\q
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\v 8 But as for me, I would turn to God himself;
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\q to him I would commit my cause—
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\q
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\v 9 he who does great and profound things,
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\q marvelous things without number.
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\q
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\v 10 He gives rain on the earth,
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\q and sends water on the fields.
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\q
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\v 11 He does this in order to set up on high those who are low;
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\q to raise to safety those who mourn in ashes.
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\q
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\v 12 He frustrates the schemes of crafty people,
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\q so that their hands cannot carry out their plots.
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\q
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\v 13 He traps wise people in their own craftiness;
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\q the plans of clever people soon end.
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\q
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\v 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime,
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\q and grope at noonday as if it were night.
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\q
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\v 15 But he saves the poor person from the sword in their mouths
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\q and the needy person from the hand of mighty people.
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\q
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\v 16 So the poor person has hope,
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\q and injustice shuts her own mouth.
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\b
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\q
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\v 17 See, happy is the man whom God corrects;
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\q therefore, do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
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\q
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\v 18 For he wounds and then binds up;
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\q he wounds and then his hands heal.
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\q
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\v 19 He will rescue you out of six troubles;
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\q indeed, in seven troubles, no evil will touch you.
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\q
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\v 20 In famine he will rescue you from death,
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\q and in war from the hands of those who use the sword.
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\q
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\v 21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue;
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\q and you will not be afraid of destruction when it comes.
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\q
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\v 22 You will laugh at destruction and famine,
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\q and you will not be afraid of wild beasts.
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\q
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\v 23 For you will have a covenant with the stones in your field;
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\q you will be at peace with the wild beasts.
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\q
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\v 24 You will know that your tent is in safety;
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\q you will visit your sheepfold and find nothing missing.
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\q
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\v 25 You will also know that your posterity will be great,
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\q that your offspring will be like the grass on the ground.
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\q
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\v 26 You will come to your grave at a full age,
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\q like a stack of grain sheaves that is carried up to the threshing floor.
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\q
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\v 27 See, we have examined this matter; it is like this;
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\q listen to it, and know it for yourself."
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