Job 5 ⓘ

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 eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

5:6 For affliction doesn’t come out of 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, marvellous 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 plans 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 will touch you.

5:20 In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

5:21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

5:22 You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

5:23 For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.

5:24 You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

5:25 You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.

5:26 You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

5:27 Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”