3 I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his  habitation straightway,
         
                                
                        4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the  gate, And there is no deliverer.
         
                                
                        5 Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns  taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
         
                                
                        6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the  ground springeth up misery.
         
                                
                        7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
         
                                
                        8 Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
         
                                
                        9 Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful,  till there is no numbering.