Job 5:1
Call now, if there is any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
Job 5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5:4
His children 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 eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job 5:6
Although affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 5:7
Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:8
I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:
Job 5:9
Who doeth great things and unsearchable; wonderful things without number:
Job 5:10
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
Job 5:11
To set on high those that are low: that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.
Job 5:12
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.
Job 5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job 5:14
They meet with darkness in the day-time, and grope in the noon-day as in the night.
Job 5:15
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:16
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job 5:17
Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job 5:18
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, 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 shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Job 5:22
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 5:23
For thou shalt 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 shalt know that thy tabernacle [will be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
Job 5:25
Thou shalt know also that thy seed [will be] great, and thy offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job 5:26
Thou shalt come to [thy] grave in a full age, as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
Job 5:27
Lo this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good.