Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Living Translation NLT
1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.
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“Cry for help, but will anyone answer you? Which of the angels will help you?
2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
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Surely resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple.
3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
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I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment, but then comes sudden disaster.
4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
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Their children are abandoned far from help; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
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The hungry devour their harvest, even when it is guarded by brambles. The thirsty pant after their wealth.
6 Nothing upon earth is done without a cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
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But evil does not spring from the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.
7 Man is born to labour, and the bird to fly.
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People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.
8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
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“If I were you, I would go to God and present my case to him.
9 Who doth great things, and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
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He does great things too marvelous to understand. He performs countless miracles.
10 Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:
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He gives rain for the earth and water for the fields.
11 Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
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He gives prosperity to the poor and protects those who suffer.
12 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
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He frustrates the plans of schemers so the work of their hands will not succeed.
13 Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
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He traps the wise in their own cleverness so their cunning schemes are thwarted.
14 They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
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They find it is dark in the daytime, and they grope at noon as if it were night.
15 But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
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He rescues the poor from the cutting words of the strong, and rescues them from the clutches of the powerful.
16 And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.
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And so at last the poor have hope, and the snapping jaws of the wicked are shut.
17 Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not, therefore, the chastising of the Lord.
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“But consider the joy of those corrected by God! Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty when you sin.
18 For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.
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For though he wounds, he also bandages. He strikes, but his hands also heal.
19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
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From six disasters he will rescue you; even in the seventh, he will keep you from evil.
20 In famine he shall deliver thee from death; and in battle, from the hand of the sword.
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He will save you from death in time of famine, from the power of the sword in time of war.
21 Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.
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You will be safe from slander and have no fear when destruction comes.
22 In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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You will laugh at destruction and famine; wild animals will not terrify you.
23 But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee.
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You will be at peace with the stones of the field, and its wild animals will be at peace with you.
24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt not sin.
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You will know that your home is safe. When you survey your possessions, nothing will be missing.
25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.
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You will have many children; your descendants will be as plentiful as grass!
26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in in its season.
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You will go to the grave at a ripe old age, like a sheaf of grain harvested at the proper time!
27 Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.
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“We have studied life and found all this to be true. Listen to my counsel, and apply it to yourself.”