1. Call now! Will anyone respond to you?To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2. Surely impatience kills the fooland indignation slays the simpleton.
3. I have seen a fool spreading his roots,but I cursed his household suddenly:
4. May his children be far from safety;may they be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.
5. What they have reaped may the hungry eat up,or God take away by blight,or the thirsty swallow their substance.
6. For not from dust does mischief come,nor from the soil does trouble sprout.
7. Human beings beget mischiefas sparks fly upward.
8. In your place, I would appeal to God,and to God I would state my plea.
9. He does things great and unsearchable,things marvelous and innumerable.
10. He gives rain upon the earthand sends water upon the fields;
11. He sets up the lowly on high,and those who mourn are raised to safety.
12. He frustrates the plans of the cunning,so that their hands achieve no success;