Job 5
1 But call, if any one will listen to you, or if you shall see any of the holy angels.
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
2 For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
3 And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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 from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither [is there] any to deliver [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.
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
6 For labor can’t by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 yet man is born to labor, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
8 Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
9 who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number:
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
10 who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
11 who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
12 frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise.
13 who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
14 In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15 and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
17 But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not you the chastening of the Almighty.
Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
18 for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19 Six time he shall deliver you out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch you.
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil 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 redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
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: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22 You shall laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and you shall not be afraid of wild beasts.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts 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 know that thy tabernacle [shall be] in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
25 And you shall know that your seed [shall be] abundant; and your children shall be like the herbage of the field.
Thou shalt know also that thy seed [shall be] great, and thine offspring as the grass 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 come to [thy] grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
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 this, we have searched it, so it [is; ] hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good.
