Job 5
1 Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?
Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.
2 Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.
Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
3 I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,
I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
4 His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them.
His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
5 The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.
Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.
6 For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.
Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
7 But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.
Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.
8 But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:
Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
9 Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.
Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
10 He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:
11 And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.
Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
12 He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.
Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
13 He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
14 They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15 But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,
But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
16 So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.
And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.
17 Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.
Blessed is the mall whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord:
18 For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.
For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.
19 He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.
In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
20 In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.
In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.
21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.
Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.
22 But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.
In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at peace with thee.
But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at pence with thee.
24 And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.
25 Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.
26 Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.
Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.
27 Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.
Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.
