5:1 Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?

5:2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

5:3 I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

5:4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

5:5 Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

5:6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

5:7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

5:8 Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

5:9 Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

5:10 Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.

5:11 To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.

5:12 Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

5:13 Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

5:14 By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

5:15 And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,

5:16 And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

5:17 Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

5:18 For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

5:19 In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.

5:20 In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.

5:21 When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.

5:22 At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

5:23 (For with sons of the field [is] thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)

5:24 And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,

5:25 And hast known that numerous [is] Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;

5:26 Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.