Job 5
1 Call now, is there any who will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones will thou turn?
Therefore call, if there are any who will respond to you, and turn to one or another of the saints.
2 For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
Truly, anger condemns the foolish to death, and envy kills the petty.
3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I have cursed his excellence without hesitation.
4 His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
His sons will be far from prosperity and will be crushed at the gate, and there will be none who can rescue them.
5 whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.
Their harvest, the starving will eat. The armed man will rob him, and the thirsty will drink his resources.
6 For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground,
Nothing on earth occurs without a reason, and sorrow does not rise from the earth.
7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.
8 But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,
Therefore, because of this, I will beg the Lord, and place my eloquence before God.
9 who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.
10 who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields,
He gives rain over the face of the earth and irrigates all things with the waters.
11 so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety.
He places the humble on high and encourages the grieving towards health.
12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.
13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
He catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse.
14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.
15 But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Thereafter, he will act to save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
16 So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
And there will be hope for those in need, for iniquity will diminish its speech.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore, do not reject the chastisement of the Lord.
18 For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.
For he wounds and he cures; he strikes and his hands will heal.
19 He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
He will deliver you into six tribulations, and in the seventh, evil will not touch you.
20 In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
During famine, he will rescue you from death, and during war, from the hand of the sword.
21 Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.
You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you will not fear calamity when it arrives.
22 At destruction and dearth thou shall laugh, nor shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
In desolation and in famine, you will laugh, and you will not dread the beasts of the earth.
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.
For you are in harmony with the stones of the land, and the beasts of the earth will make peace with you.
24 And thou shall know that thy tent is in peace, and thou shall visit thy fold, and shall miss nothing.
And you will know that your home has peace, and, concerning your appearance, you will not sin.
25 Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Likewise, you will know that your offspring will be manifold and your progeny will be like the grass of the earth.
26 Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
You will enter the grave with abundance, just as a crop of wheat is gathered in its time.
27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Behold, this is just as we have found it, which you have heard; walk it through your mind.
