7. Yet adam is born unto amal (trouble, tzoros), even as sparks fly upward.
8. I would seek El (G-d), and before Elohim would I lay my cause;
9. Who doeth gedolot unsearchable, marvellous things without mispar;
10. Who giveth matar upon eretz, and sendeth mayim upon the fields;
11. To set up on high those that be the shefalim (the lowly ones); that those which mourn may be exalted to safety,
12. Thwarting the machshevot of the arumim (crafty ones), so that their hands cannot accomplish tushiyyah (success).
13. He taketh the chachamim in their own arum (craftiness), and the etzah of the wily is swiftly swept away.