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- CALL NOW--is there any who will answer you? And to which of the holy [angels] will you turn?
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- For vexation and rage kill the foolish man; jealousy and indignation slay the simple.
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- I have seen the foolish taking root [and outwardly prospering], but suddenly I saw that his dwelling was cursed [for his doom was certain].
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- His children are far from safety; [involved in their father's ruin] they are crushed in the [court of justice in the city's] gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
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- His harvest the hungry eat and take it even [when it grows] among the thorns; the snare opens for [his] wealth.
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- For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring forth out of the ground.
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- But man is born to trouble as the sparks and the flames fly upward.
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- As for me, I would seek God and inquire of and require Him, and to God would I commit my cause--
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- Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
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- Who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields,
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- So that He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn He lifts to safety.
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- He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise or anything of [lasting] worth.
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- He catches the [so-called] wise in their own trickiness, and the counsel of the schemers is brought to a quick end. [I Cor. 3:19, 20.]
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- In the daytime they meet in darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night.
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- But [God] saves [the fatherless] from the sword of their mouth, and the needy from the hand of the mighty.
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- So the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts her mouth.
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- Happy and fortunate is the man whom God reproves; so do not despise or reject the correction of the Almighty [subjecting you to trial and suffering].
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- For He wounds, but He binds up; He smites, but His hands heal.
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- He will rescue you in six troubles; in seven nothing that is evil [for you] will touch you.
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- In famine He will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
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- You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
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- At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the living creatures of the earth.
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- For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
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- And you shall know that your tent shall be in peace, and you shall visit your fold and your dwelling and miss nothing [from them].
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- You shall know also that your children shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
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- You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, and as a shock of grain goes up [to the threshing floor] in its season.
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- This is what we have searched out; it is true. Hear and heed it and know for yourself [for your good].
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