Job 5
1 Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.
Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?
2 Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.
6 Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
Although affliction comes not out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
Which does great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
10 Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:
Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields:
11 Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
He dissapoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the perverse is carried headlong.
14 They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.
So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
17 Blessed is the mall whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord:
Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.
For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
He shall deliver you in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
20 In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.
In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
21 Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.
You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at pence with thee.
For you shall be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.
And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.
25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.
You shall know also that your seed shall be great, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of corn comes in in his season.
27 Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.
