Job 5
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- 1Call now, if there is anyone who will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?
- 2For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the simple one.
- 3I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
- 4His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
- 5The hungry eat up their harvest, and take it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.
- 6Although affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground;
- 7Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
- 8I would seek to God, and to God I would commit my cause:
- 9Who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
- 10Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields:
- 11To set up on high those who are low, so that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.
- 12He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot carry out their enterprise.
- 13He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the crooked is carried headlong.
- 14They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
- 15But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
- 16So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
- 17Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects; therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty:
- 18For he causes pain, and binds up; he wounds, and his hands heal.
- 19He shall deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
- 20In famine he shall redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
- 21You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes.
- 22At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and you shall not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
- 23For you will be in league with the stones of the field, and the animals of the field will be at peace with you.
- 24And you will know that your tabernacle will be at peace; and when you visit your habitation, you will not sin.
- 25You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
- 26You shall come to your grave at a ripe old age, like a bundle of grain gathered in its season.
- 27Look, this we have searched out; it is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.