10. He gives rain to the earthand sends water to the fields.
11. He places lowly people up high.He lifts those who mourn to safety.
12. He keeps shrewd people from carrying out their plansso that they cannot do anything successfully.
13. He catches the wise with their own tricks.The plans of schemers prove to be hasty.
14. In the daytime they meet darknessand grope in the sunlight as if it were night.
15. “But he saves ⌊other people⌋ from their slanderand the needy from the power of the mighty.
16. Then the poor have hopewhile wrongdoing shuts its mouth.
17. “Blessed is the person whom God corrects.That person should not despise discipline from the Almighty.
18. God injures, but he bandages.He beats you up, but his hands make you well.