Job 5
1 But call, if any one will listen to you, or if you shall see any of the holy angels.
Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?
2 For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.
Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.
3 And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,
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 shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer 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.
The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.
6 For labor can’t by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.
7 yet man is born to labor, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.
But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.
8 Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:
9 who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number:
Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.
10 who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
11 who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.
12 frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.
13 who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty
He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
14 In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.
15 and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,
16 And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.
17 But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not you the chastening of the Almighty.
Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.
18 for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.
For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.
19 Six time he shall deliver you out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch you.
He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.
20 In famine he shall deliver you from death: and in war he shall free you from the power of the sword.
In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.
21 He shall hide you from the scourge of the tongue: and you shall not be afraid of coming evils.
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.
22 You shall laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and you shall not be afraid of wild beasts.
But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.
23 For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 Then shall you know that your house shall be at peace, and the provision for your tabernacle shall not fail.
And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.
25 And you shall know that your seed [shall be] abundant; and your children shall be like the herbage of the field.
Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.
26 And you shall 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 goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.
27 Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do you reflect with yourself, if you have done anything [wrong].
Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.
