4 May his children be far from safety;may they be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.
5 What they have reaped may the hungry eat up,or God take away by blight,or the thirsty swallow their substance.
6 For not from dust does mischief come,nor from the soil does trouble sprout.
7 Human beings beget mischiefas sparks fly upward.
8 In your place, I would appeal to God,and to God I would state my plea.
9 He does things great and unsearchable,things marvelous and innumerable.
10 He gives rain upon the earthand sends water upon the fields;