Job 5
1 But call, if any one will hearken to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.
Call now, see if any will answer thee! And to which of the holy ones wilt thou look?
2 For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.
Verily grief destroyeth the fool, And wrath consumeth the weak man.
3 And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
I have seen an impious man taking root, But soon 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 children are far from safety; They are oppressed at the gate, and there is none 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.
His harvest the hungry devour, Carrying it even through the thorns; And a snare gapeth after his substance.
6 For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
For affliction cometh not from the dust, Nor doth trouble spring up from the ground;
7 yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.
Behold, 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;
I would look to God, And to God would I commit my cause,
9 who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:
Who doeth great things and unsearchable; Yea, marvellous things without number;
10 who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth water upon the fields;
11 who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
Who placeth the lowly in high places, And restoreth the afflicted to prosperity;
12 frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
Who disappointeth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprises;
13 who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty
Who taketh the wise in their own craftiness, And bringeth to nought the counsel of the artful.
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; They grope at noon as if it were night.
15 and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
So he saveth the persecuted from their mouth; The oppressed from the hand of the mighty.
16 And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth 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 correcteth; Therefore despise not 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 bruiseth, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19 Six time he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.
In six troubles will he deliver thee; Yea, in seven 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 shalt be safe from the scourge of the tongue, And shalt not be afraid of destruction, when it cometh.
22 Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, And of the wild beasts of the land shalt thou not be afraid.
23 For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; Yea, the beasts of the forest 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.
Thou shalt find that thy tent is in peace; Thou shalt visit thy dwelling, and not be disappointed.
25 And thou shalt know that thy seed [shall be] abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.
Thou shalt see thy descendants numerous, 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 shalt come to thy grave in full age, As a shock of corn gathered 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 out; so it is: Hear it, and lay it up in thy mind!
