| Chapter 5 |
1 | Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints. |
2 | Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one. |
3 | I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately. |
4 | His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them. |
5 | Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches. |
6 | Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground. |
7 | Man is born to labour and the bird to fly. |
8 | Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God: |
9 | Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number: |
10 | Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters: |
11 | Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn. |
12 | Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun: |
13 | Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked: |
14 | They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night. |
15 | But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent. |
16 | And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth. |
17 | Blessed is the mall whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord: |
18 | For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal. |
19 | In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee. |
20 | In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword. |
21 | Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh. |
22 | In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth. |
23 | But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at pence with thee. |
24 | And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin. |
25 | Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth. |
26 | Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season. |
27 | Behold, this is even so, as we have searched oat: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind. |