1Name me one else, if thou can find any: yea(yee) look about thee, upon any of the holy men.
2As for the foolish man, displeasure killeth him and anger slayeth the ignorant.
3I have seen my self, when the foolish was deep rooted, that his beauty was suddenly(sodely) destroyed,
4that his children were without prosperity or health: that they were slain in the door, and no man to deliver them:
5that his harvest was eaten up of the hungry: that the weaponed man had spoiled it, and that the thirsty had drunk up his riches.
6Is it not the earth that bringeth forth travail, neither cometh sorrow out of the ground:
7but it is man, that is born unto misery, like as the bird for to flee.
8But now will I speak of(off) the Lord,(LORDE) and talk of God:
9which doth things, that are unsearchable, and marvelous without number:
10Which giveth rain upon the earth, and poureth water upon all things:
11which setteth up them of low degree, and sendeth prosperity, to those that are in heaviness:
12Which destroyeth the devices of the subtle, so that they are not able to perform the things that they take in hand:
13which compass the wise in their own craftiness, and overthroweth the counsel of the wicked?
14In so much that they run in to darkness by fair day, and grope about them at the noon day, like as in the night.
15And so he delivereth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the cruel,
16that the poor may have hope, and that the mouth of the oppressor may be stopped.
17Behold, happy is the man, whom God punisheth: therefore, despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
18For though he make a wound, he giveth a medicine again: though he smite, his hand maketh whole again.
19He delivereth thee out of six troubles, so that in the seventh there can no harm touch thee.
20In the middest of hunger he saveth thee from death: and when it is war, from the power of the sword.
21He shall keep thee from the perilous tongue so that when trouble cometh, thou shalt not need to fear.
22In destruction and dearth thou shalt be merry, and shalt not be afraid for the beasts of the earth:
23But the castles in the land shall be confederate with thee, and the beasts of the field, shall give thee peace.
24Yea thou shalt know,(see) that thy dwelling place shall be in rest: thou shalt behold thy substance, and be no more punished for sin.
25Thou shalt see also, that thy seed shall increase, and that thy posterity shall be as the grass upon the earth.
26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.
27Lo, this is the matter, as we ourselves have proved by experience. Therefore now that thou hearest it, take better heed to thyself.