ECB(i)
1 Call, I beseech, if there be any who answer you; and to which of the holy do you face?
2 For vexation slaughters the foolish and envy deathifies the enticed.
3 I see the foolish taking root; but suddenly I curse his habitation of rest.
4 His children are far from salvation - crushed in the portal, none to rescue them;
5 whose harvest the famished eat and even take it through the thorns and the robber gulps their valuables.
6 For neither comes mischief from the dust, nor sprouts toil from the soil;
7 yet humanity is birthed to toil, as the sons of the burning coal lift and fly.
8 Yet I - I seek to El and to Elohim I set my word;
9 who works great - not to be probed; marvels without number;
10 who gives rain on the face of the earth and sends waters on the face of the outways;
11 to set the lowly in the heights; to lift the darkened to salvation.
12 He breaks down the fabrications of the subtle so that their hands not work their substance:
13 he captures the wise in their own craftiness; and hastens the counsel of the twisters.
14 They meet with darkness in the day and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 And he saves the needy from the sword, from their mouth and from the hand of the strong.
16 And so be it, hope to the poor and wickedness shuts her mouth.
17 Behold, blithe - the man whom Elohah reproves; so spurn not the discipline of Shadday;
18 for he pains and binds; he strikes and his hands heal.
19 He rescues you in six tribulations; yes, in seven no evil touches you.
20 In famine he redeems you from death; and in war from the hand of the sword.
21 You are hid from the lash of the tongue; awe not devastation when it comes.
22 You laugh at devastation and hunger; and awe not the live beings of the earth.
23 For your covenant is with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field are at shalom with you.
24 And you know that your tent is in shalom; and you visit your habitation of rest and sin not.
25 You know also that your seed is great and your offspring as the herbage of the earth.
26 You come to your tomb in maturity, as a heap ascends in his time.
27 Behold this, we probe, and so be it; hear and know for your own good.