1"Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

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Job 15:15, Job 15:15, Job 15:8, Job 15:10, Job 4:18

2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

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Ecclesiastes 7:9, Ecclesiastes 7:9, Hosea 7:11, Proverbs 12:16, Psalms 75:4

3I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

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Psalms 73:18, Psalms 73:20, Psalms 73:18, Psalms 73:20, Psalms 37:35

4His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

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Psalms 127:5, Psalms 127:5, Psalms 119:155, Psalms 119:155, Job 1:19

5whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

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Lamentations 2:16, Lamentations 2:16, Hosea 8:7, Hosea 8:7, Jeremiah 51:44

6For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

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Isaiah 45:7, Isaiah 45:7, 1 Samuel 6:9, Psalms 90:7, Hebrews 12:15

7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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Job 14:1, Job 14:1, Genesis 3:17, Genesis 3:19, Genesis 3:17

8"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

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Psalms 50:15, Psalms 50:15, Job 22:21, Job 22:21, Psalms 37:5

9who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;

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Psalms 40:5, Psalms 40:5, Job 9:10, Job 9:10, Psalms 72:18

10who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

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Acts 14:17, Acts 14:17, Jeremiah 5:24, Jeremiah 14:22, Psalms 147:8

11so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

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1 Samuel 2:7, 1 Samuel 2:8, 1 Samuel 2:7, 1 Samuel 2:8, Luke 1:52

12He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

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Psalms 33:10, Psalms 33:11, Psalms 33:10, Psalms 33:11, Psalms 21:11

13He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

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Psalms 9:15, Psalms 9:16, 1 Corinthians 3:19, Psalms 9:15, Psalms 9:16

14They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

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Job 12:25, Job 12:25, Deuteronomy 28:29, Isaiah 59:10, Deuteronomy 28:29

15But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

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Psalms 35:10, Psalms 35:10, Job 4:10, Psalms 140:12, Psalms 10:17

16So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.

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Psalms 107:42, Psalms 107:42, 1 Samuel 2:8, 1 Samuel 2:9, Psalms 63:11

17"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

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James 1:12, James 1:12, Psalms 94:12, Psalms 94:12, Proverbs 3:11

18For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.

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Hosea 6:1, Hosea 6:1, Deuteronomy 32:39, Deuteronomy 32:39, Isaiah 30:26

19He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.

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Psalms 34:19, Psalms 34:19, 1 Corinthians 10:13, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Psalms 91:3

20In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

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Psalms 33:19, Psalms 33:19, Hosea 13:14, Hosea 13:14, Genesis 45:7

21You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

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Psalms 31:20, Psalms 31:20, Psalms 91:5, Psalms 91:7, Psalms 91:5

22At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

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Ezekiel 34:25, Ezekiel 34:25, Isaiah 35:9, Isaiah 35:9, Psalms 91:13

23For you shall be in league with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

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Leviticus 26:6, Leviticus 26:6, Hosea 2:18, Hosea 2:18, Daniel 6:22

24You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

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Psalms 121:7, Psalms 121:8, Psalms 121:7, Psalms 121:8, Psalms 91:10

25You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

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Psalms 112:2, Psalms 112:2, Psalms 72:16, Psalms 72:16, Genesis 15:5

26You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

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Proverbs 9:11, Job 42:16, Job 42:17, Proverbs 9:11, Job 42:16

27Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."

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Psalms 111:2, Psalms 111:2, Job 32:11, Job 32:12, Proverbs 9:12