Job 5
1 Call if you want, but who is going to answer you? Which angel are you going to turn to?
Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn?
2 Surely anger slays the fool and jealousy kills the simple.
For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
3 I have seen a fool growing strong, but I immediately cursed his house.
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His sons are never safe; they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
5 The hungry eat everything he has harvested, taking even that protected by a thorn hedge, while others look to steal his wealth.
Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance.
6 For evil doesn't come from the dust; neither does trouble grow from the earth.
Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 But human beings are born for trouble just as certainly as sparks from a fire fly upwards.
Yet man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 If it were me, I would go to God and put my case before him.
I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:
9 He is the one who does amazing, incredible things; miracles that can't be counted!
Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:
10 He gives rain to the earth and sends water to the fields.
Who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields:
11 He exalts the humble, and rescues those who mourn.
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 He frustrates the plans of the cunning so that they are unsuccessful.
He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
13 He traps the wise in their own clever thinking, and the schemes of twisted people are cut short.
He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the fraudulent is carried headlong.
14 In the daytime they're in the dark, and they stumble around at noon like it's night.
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 But God is the one who saves from their cutting remarks, and the poor from the actions of the powerful.
But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 As a result those who are helpless have hope, and the wicked have to shut their mouths!
So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.
17 See how happy is the person God corrects—so don't despise the Almighty's discipline.
Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not you the chastening of the Almighty:
18 For he causes pain but he provides relief; he wounds but his hands heal.
For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole.
19 He will save you from many disasters; a multitude of evils will not affect you.
He shall deliver you in six troubles: yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
20 In times of famine he will rescue you from death, and in times of war he will save you from the power of the sword.
In famine he shall redeem you from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
21 You will be protected from sharp-tongued slander; and when violence comes you will not be afraid.
You shall be hid from the whip of the tongue: neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 You will laugh at violence and famine; you won't be afraid of wild animals—
At destruction and famine you shall laugh: neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 for you will be at peace with the stones of the field and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
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 You will be certain that your home is safe, for you will go to where you live and find nothing missing.
And you shall know that your tabernacle shall be in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.
25 You will also be sure that you will have many children; your descendants will be 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 You will live to a ripe old age like a sheaf of grain when it is harvested.
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season.
27 Look, we've examined it, and it's true! Listen to what I'm saying and apply it to yourself!”
See this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know you it for your good.
