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Make your appeal then. Will you find an answer? To which of the Holy Ones will you turn?
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Resentment kills the senseless, and anger brings death to the fool.
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I myself have seen how such a one took root, until a swift curse fell on his House.
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His sons at a single blow lose their prop and stay, ruined at the gate[*a] with no one to defend them;
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their harvest goes to feed the hungry, God snatches it from their mouths, and thirsty men hanker after their goods.
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Grief does not grow out of the earth, nor sorrow spring from the ground.
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It is man who breeds trouble for himself as surely as eagles fly to the height.
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If I were as you are, I should appeal to God, and lay my case before him.
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His works are great, past all reckoning, marvels, beyond all counting.
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He sends down rain to the earth, pours down water on the field.
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If his will is to rescue the downcast, or raise the afflicted to the heights of joy,
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he wrecks the plans of the artful, and brings to naught their intrigues.
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He traps the crafty in the snare of their own shrewdness, turns subtle counsellors to idiots.
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In daylight they come against darkness, and grope their way as if noon were night.
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He rescues the bankrupt from their jaws, and the poor man from the hands of the violent.
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Thus the wretched can hope again and wickedness must shut its mouth.
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Happy indeed the man whom God corrects! Then do not refuse this lesson from Shaddai.[*b]
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For he who wounds is he who soothes the sore, and the hand that hurts is the hand that heals.
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Six times he will deliver you from sorrow, and the seventh, evil shall not touch you.
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In time of famine, he will save you from death, and in wartime from the stroke of the sword.
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You shall be safe from the lash of the tongue, and see the approach of the brigand without fear.
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You shall laugh at drought and frost, and have no fear of the beasts of the earth.
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You shall have a pact with the stones of the field, and live in amity with wild beasts.
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You shall find your tent secure, and your sheepfold untouched when you come.
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You shall see your descendants multiply, your offspring grow like the grass in the fields.
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In ripe age you shall go to the grave, like a wheatsheaf stacked in due season.
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All this, we have observed: it is true. Heed it, and do so to your profit.
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