MLV(i)
8 But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,
9 who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
10 who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields,
11 so that he sets up on high those who are low and those who mourn are exalted to safety.
12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. 16 So a poor man has hope and unrighteousness stops her mouth.
17 Behold, fortunate is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise you the chastening of the Almighty. 18 For he injures and binds up. He wounds and his hands make whole.
19 He will deliver you in six troubles. Yes, in seven there will no evil touch you. 20 In famine he will redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword. 21 You will be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 At destruction and dearth you will laugh, nor will you be afraid of the beasts of the earth. 23 For you will be in league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you. 24 And you will know that your tent is in peace and you will visit your fold and will miss nothing.
25 You will know also that your seed will be great and your offspring as the grass of the earth. 26 You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty. 16 So a poor man has hope and unrighteousness stops her mouth.
17 Behold, fortunate is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise you the chastening of the Almighty. 18 For he injures and binds up. He wounds and his hands make whole.
19 He will deliver you in six troubles. Yes, in seven there will no evil touch you. 20 In famine he will redeem you from death and in war from the power of the sword. 21 You will be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 At destruction and dearth you will laugh, nor will you be afraid of the beasts of the earth. 23 For you will be in league with the stones of the field and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you. 24 And you will know that your tent is in peace and you will visit your fold and will miss nothing.
25 You will know also that your seed will be great and your offspring as the grass of the earth. 26 You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.