Job 5
1 But call, if any one will hearken to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.
Call, I pray thee—is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?
2 For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.
For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.
3 And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:
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 removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
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, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
6 For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
For sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust, —nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.
7 yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.
Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,
8 Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
Yet indeed, I, would seek unto El, and, unto Elohim, would I set forth any cause: —
9 who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:
Who doeth great things, beyond all search, —Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;
10 who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;
11 who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;
12 frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;
13 who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty
Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:
14 In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
15 and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.
16 And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.
17 But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;
18 for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.
For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.
19 Six time he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.
In six troubles, he will rescue thee, and, in seven, there shall smite thee no misfortune:
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 ransom thee from death, and in battle 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.
During the scourge of the tongue, shalt thou be hid, neither shalt thou 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 at hunger, shalt thou laugh, and, of the wild beast of the earth, be not thou afraid;
23 For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;
24 Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.
And thou shalt know that, at peace, is thy tent, and shalt visit thy fold, and miss nothing;
25 And thou shalt know that thy seed [shall be] abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.
And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.
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, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up 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! as for this, we have searched it out—so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.
