Job 5:1
Call now, is there any who will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones will thou turn?
Job 5:2
For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5:4
His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.
Job 5:6
For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground,
Job 5:7
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:8
But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,
Job 5:9
who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
Job 5:10
who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields,
Job 5:11
so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety.
Job 5:12
He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 5:13
He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Job 5:15
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:16
So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
Job 5:17
Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Job 5:18
For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.
Job 5:19
He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Job 5:20
In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 5:21
Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Job 5:22
At destruction and dearth thou shall laugh, nor shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 5:23
For thou shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Job 5:24
And thou shall know that thy tent is in peace, and thou shall visit thy fold, and shall miss nothing.
Job 5:25
Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job 5:26
Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Job 5:27
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.