New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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1 Call if you will; is there any to answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2 The fool is destroyed by his own angry passions,
and the end of childish resentment is death.
3 I have seen it for myself: a fool uprooted,
his home in sudden ruin about him, note
4 his children past help,
browbeaten in court note with none to save them.
5 note Their rich possessions are snatched from them;
what they have harvested others hungrily devour;
the stronger man seizes it from the panniers,
panting, thirsting for their wealth.
6 Mischief does not grow out of the soil
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nor trouble spring from the earth;
7 man is born to trouble,
as surely as birds fly note upwards.
8 For my part, I would make my petition to God
and lay my cause before him,
9 who does great and unsearchable things,
marvels without number.
10 He gives rain to the earth
and sends water on the fields;
11 he raises the lowly to the heights,
the mourners are uplifted by victory;
12 he frustrates the plots of the crafty,
and they win no success,
13 he traps the cunning in their craftiness,
and the schemers' plans are thrown into confusion.
14 In the daylight they run into darkness,
and grope at midday as though it were night.
15 He saves the destitute from their greed, note
and the needy from the grip of the strong;
16 so the poor hope again,
and the unjust are sickened.
17 Happy the man whom God rebukes!
therefore do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.
18 For, though he wounds, he will bind up;
the hands that smite will heal.
19 You may meet disaster six times, and he will save you;
seven times, and no harm shall touch you.
20 In time of famine he will save you from death,
in battle from the sword.
21 You will be shielded from the lash of slander, note
and when violence comes you need not fear.
22 You will laugh at violence and starvation
and have no need to fear wild beasts;
23 for you have a covenant with the stones to spare your fields.
and the weeds have been constrained to leave you at peace.
24 You will know that all is well with your household,
you will look round your home and find nothing amiss;
25 you will know, too, that your descendants will be many
and your offspring like grass, thick upon the earth.
26 You will come in sturdy old age to the grave
as sheaves come in due season to the threshing-floor.
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27 We have inquired into all this, and so it is;
this we have heard, and you may know it for the truth.
New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].
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