4. His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, with no one to deliver.
5. The hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the snare snaps up their wealth.
6. For evil does not come from the dust, nor does trouble spring from the ground;
7. for man is born for trouble, and the sparks fly upward.
8. But as for me, I would seek Ěl, and I would submit my case to Elohim,
9. who is doing great and unsearchable deeds, innumerable wonders,
10. who is giving rain on the earth’s face, and is sending waters on the field’s face;
11. to set the lowly on high, and those who mourn shall be lifted to safety,
12. thwarting the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands do not work effectively;
13. catching the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of schemers are swept away.