Chapter 5
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
and to which
15.8-10,15 Isaiah 41.1,21-23 Hebrews 12.1
the saints
4.18 15.15 Deuteronomy 33.2,3 Psalms 16.3 106.16 Ephesians 1.1
turn
or, look.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
wrath
the foolish
Psalms 14.1 75.4 92.6 107.17 Proverbs 1.22,23 8.5 Ecclesiastes 7.9
envy
or, indignation.
Genesis 30.1 1 Samuel 18.8,9 Romans 2.8
one
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
taking
27.8 Psalms 37.35,36 73.3-9,18-20 92.7 Jeremiah 12.1-3
cursed
Deuteronomy 27.15-26 Psalms 69.25 Acts 1.20
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
children
4.10,11 8.4 18.16-19 27.14 Exodus 20.5 Psalms 109.9-15 119.155 127.5
they are crushed
neither
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
harvest
Deuteronomy 28.33,51 Judges 6.3-6 Isaiah 62.8
the thorns
Judges 6.11 2 Chronicles 33.11
the robber
swalloweth
2.3 20.15 Jeremiah 51.34,44 Lamentations 2.5,16
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
affliction
or, iniquity. trouble.
34.29 Deuteronomy 32.27 1 Samuel 6.9 Psalms 90.7 Isaiah 45.7 Lamentations 3.38 Amos 3.6
spring out
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
man
14.1 Genesis 3.17-19 Psalms 90.8,9 1 Corinthians 10.13
trouble
or, labour.
sparks fly upward
Heb. sons of the burning coal lift up to fly.
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
seek
8.5 22.21,27 Genesis 32.7-12 2 Chronicles 33.12,13 Psalms 50.15 77.1,2 Jonah 2.1-7
unto God
Psalms 37.5 2 Timothy 1.12 1 Peter 2.23 4.19
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
doeth
9.10 11.7-9 37.5 Psalms 40.5 72.18 86.10 Romans 11.33
unsearchable
Heb. there is no search.
marvellous
without number
Heb. till there be no number.
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
giveth
28.26 Psalms 65.9-11 147.8 Jeremiah 5.24 10.13 14.22 Amos 4.7 Acts 14.17
fields
Heb. outplaces.
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
set up
1 Samuel 2.7,8 Psalms 91.14 107.41 Ezekiel 17.24 Luke 1.52,53
those
Luke 6.21 James 1.9 4.6-10 1 Peter 5.10
exalted
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
disappointeth
12.16,17 Nehemiah 4.15 Psalms 33.10,11 37.17 Proverbs 21.30 Isaiah 8.10 19.3
their hands
Psalms 21.11 Isaiah 37.36 Acts 12.11 23.12-22
their enterprise
or, anything.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
taketh
2 Samuel 15.31,34 17.23 Esther 6.4-11 7.10 9.25 Psalms 7.15,16 9.15,16 Psalms 35.7,8 Luke 1.51 1 Corinthians 1.19,20
of the froword
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
meet with
or, run into. darkness.
12.25 Deuteronomy 28.29 Proverbs 4.19 Isaiah 59.10 Amos 8.9
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
he saveth
Psalms 10.14,17 35.10 72.4,12,13 107.41 109.31 140.12
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
the poor
1 Samuel 2.8,9 Psalms 9.18 Isaiah 14.32 Zechariah 9.12
and
Exodus 11.7 Psalms 63.11 107.42 Romans 3.19
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
happy
Psalms 94.12 Proverbs 3.11,12 Jeremiah 31.18 Hebrews 12.5-11 James 1.12 5.11 Revelation 3.19
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Deuteronomy 32.39 1 Samuel 2.6 Psalms 147.3 Isaiah 30.26
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
deliver thee
Psalms 34.19 91.3-7 Proverbs 24.16 1 Corinthians 10.13 2 Corinthians 1.8 2 Peter 2.9
no evil
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
famine
Genesis 45.7 1 Kings 17.6 Psalms 33.19 Proverbs 10.3 Isaiah 33.16 Habakkuk 3.17
redeem
in war
the power
Heb. hands.
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
be hid
Psalms 31.20 55.21 57.4 Proverbs 12.18 Isaiah 54.17 Jeremiah 18.18 James 3.5-8
from the scourge
or, when the tongue scourgeth. neither.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
laugh
afraid
Isaiah 35.9 65.25 Ezekiel 34.25
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
thou
Psalms 91.12,13 Hosea 2.18 Romans 8.38,39
beasts
Leviticus 26.6 Ezekiel 14.15,16 Isaiah 11.9 Daniel 6.22
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
thou shalt know
18.6,15,21 21.7-9 1 Samuel 30.3 Isaiah 4.5,6
thy tabernacle, etc
or, peace is thy tabernacle.
thou shalt visit
Deuteronomy 28.6 Psalms 91.10 121.7,8
sin
or, err.
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
thy seed
42.13-16 Genesis 15.5 Leviticus 26.9 Deuteronomy 28.4 Psalms 112.2 127.3-5 128.3-6
great
or, much. as the grass.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
in a full age
42.16,17 Genesis 15.15 25.8 Psalms 91.16 Proverbs 9.11 10.27
cometh
Heb. ascendeth.
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
we have searched
8.8-10 12.2 15.9,10,17 32.11,12 Psalms 111.2 Proverbs 2.3-5
for thy good
Heb. for thyself.