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,
11. So that He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn He lifts to safety.
12. He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise or anything of [lasting] worth.
13. 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.]
14. In the daytime they meet in darkness, and at noon they grope as in the night.
15. But [God] saves [the fatherless] from the sword of their mouth, and the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16. So the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts her mouth.
17. 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].
18. For He wounds, but He binds up; He smites, but His hands heal.
19. He will rescue you in six troubles; in seven nothing that is evil [for you] will touch you.