1. CALL NOW–is there any who will answer you? And to which of the holy [angels] will you turn?
2. For vexation and rage kill the foolish man; jealousy and indignation slay the simple.
3. I have seen the foolish taking root [and outwardly prospering], but suddenly I saw that his dwelling was cursed [for his doom was certain].
4. 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.
5. His harvest the hungry eat and take it even [when it grows] among the thorns; the snare opens for [his] wealth.
6. For affliction comes not forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring forth out of the ground.
7. But man is born to trouble as the sparks and the flames fly upward.
8. As for me, I would seek God and inquire of and require Him, and to God would I commit my cause–
9. Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
10. Who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields,