11 To set up on high those that are low; that those who mourn may be lifted to safety.
12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their plans.
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the cunning is quickly ended.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty: