5:6Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
5:8I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
5:9Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
5:10Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
5:11To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
5:12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
5:13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
5:14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
5:15But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
5:16So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
5:19He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
5:20In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
5:21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
5:22At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
5:23For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
5:24And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
5:25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
5:26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
5:27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.