The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
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Call now, if there be any that will answer thee;
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and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? |
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For wrath killeth the foolish man,
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and envy slayeth the silly one. |
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I have seen the foolish taking root:
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but suddenly I cursed his habitation. |
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His children are far from safety,
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and they are crushed in the gate, |
neither is there any to deliver them. |
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Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,
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and taketh it even out of the thorns, |
and the robber swalloweth up their substance. |
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Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust,
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neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; |
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yet man is born unto trouble,
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as the sparks fly upward. |
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I would seek unto God,
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and unto God would I commit my cause: |
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which doeth great things and unsearchable;
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marvelous things without number: |
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who giveth rain upon the earth,
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and sendeth waters upon the fields: |
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to set up on high those that be low;
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that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. |
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He disappointeth the devices of the crafty,
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so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. |
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He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: 1 Cor. 3.19
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and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. |
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They meet with darkness in the daytime,
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and grope in the noonday as in the night. |
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But he saveth the poor from the sword,
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from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. |
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So the poor hath hope,
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and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. |
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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:
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for he maketh sore, and bindeth up:
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he woundeth, and his hands make whole. |
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He shall deliver thee in six troubles:
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yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. |
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In famine he shall redeem thee from death:
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and in war from the power of the sword. |
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Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue:
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neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. |
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At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh:
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neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. |
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For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field:
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and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. |
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And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace;
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and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. |
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Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great,
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and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. |
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Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,
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like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. |
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Lo this, we have searched it, so it is;
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hear it, and know thou it for thy good. |
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