4. His children are far from help.They are crushed at the city gate,and no one is there to rescue them.
5. What a stubborn fool gathers, hungry people eat.They take it even from among the thorns,and thirsty people pant after his wealth.
6. Certainly, sorrow doesn’t come from the soil,and trouble doesn’t sprout from the ground.
7. But a person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up ⌊from a fire⌋.
8. “But I would seek God’s helpand present my case to him.
9. He does great things that ⌊we⌋ cannot understandand miracles that ⌊we⌋ cannot count.
10. He gives rain to the earthand sends water to the fields.
11. He places lowly people up high.He lifts those who mourn to safety.
12. He keeps shrewd people from carrying out their plansso that they cannot do anything successfully.
13. He catches the wise with their own tricks.The plans of schemers prove to be hasty.
14. In the daytime they meet darknessand grope in the sunlight as if it were night.
15. “But he saves ⌊other people⌋ from their slanderand the needy from the power of the mighty.
16. Then the poor have hopewhile wrongdoing shuts its mouth.
17. “Blessed is the person whom God corrects.That person should not despise discipline from the Almighty.
18. God injures, but he bandages.He beats you up, but his hands make you well.
19. He will keep you safe from six troubles,and when the seventh one comes, no harm will touch you: