Job 5
1 But call, if any one will hearken to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.
Call now, is there any who will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones will thou turn?
2 For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.
For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
3 And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.
His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
5 For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.
6 For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground,
7 yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,
9 who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:
who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,
10 who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields,
11 who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety.
12 frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty
He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
14 In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15 and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16 And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
17 But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.
18 for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.
For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 Six time he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.
He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20 In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.
In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
21 He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.
Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.
At destruction and dearth thou shall laugh, nor shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
For thou shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.
And thou shall know that thy tent is in peace, and thou shall visit thy fold, and shall miss nothing.
25 And thou shalt know that thy seed [shall be] abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.
Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.
Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
27 Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything [wrong].
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
