Job Chapter 5 Back Next{5:1} "Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
{5:2} For resentment kills the foolish man, and
jealousy kills the simple.
{5:3} I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his
habitation.
{5:4} His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the
gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
{5:5} whose
harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
{5:6} For affliction doesn't come forth from the
dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
{5:7} but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
{5:8} "But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
{5:9} who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
{5:10} who gives rain on the
earth, and sends waters on the
fields;
{5:11} so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
{5:12} He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
{5:13} He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
{5:14} They meet with
darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
{5:15} But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
{5:16} So the poor has
hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
{5:17} "Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
{5:18} For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.
{5:19} He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
{5:20} In
famine he will redeem you from
death; in war, from the power of the sword.
{5:21} You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
{5:22} At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
{5:23} For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
{5:24} You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
{5:25} You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the
grass of the earth.
{5:26} You shall come to your
grave in a full age, like a shock of
grain comes in its season.
{5:27} Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."
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