Job 5
1 Do but call: is there one that will answer thee? and to whom of the saints wilt thou turn thyself?
But call, if any one will listen to you, or if you shall see any of the holy angels.
2 For vexation will prove death to a foolish man, and jealousy will slay the simple.
For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.
3 I have myself seen the foolish taking root; but I suddenly held his habitation as accursed.
And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
4 His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them.
Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.
5 [He it is] whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber snatcheth eagerly after their substance.
For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.
6 For wrong doth not come forth out of the dust, neither doth trouble grow up out of the ground;
For labour can’t by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
7 But man is born unto trouble, as young birds take up their flight.
yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.
8 I, however, would have besought God, and unto God would I have committed my cause;
Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
9 Who doth great things which are unsearchable, marvelous things till they are without number;
who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:
10 Who giveth rain upon the surface of the earth, and sendeth out waters over the face of the fields;
who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
11 To set up the lowly on high, that those who mourn may rise high to happiness;
who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
12 [But] who frustrateth the plans of the crafty, so that their hands cannot execute their well-devised counsel;
frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
13 Who catcheth the wise in their own craftiness; and the advise of the perverse is hastened on headlong;
who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty
14 By day they meet with darkness, and as though it were night they grope about in the noon of day;
In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
15 But who saveth from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty, the needy one:
and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
16 And so cometh to the indigent hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
17 Behold, happy is the man whom God admonisheth: despise then not the correction of the Almighty.
But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not you the chastening of the Almighty.
18 For he it is that woundeth, and bindeth up: he smiteth, and his hands do heal.
for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.
19 In six distresses will he deliver thee; and in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Six time he shall deliver you out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch you.
20 In famine he redeemeth thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.
In famine he shall deliver you from death: and in war he shall free you from the power of the sword.
21 Against the scourge of the tongue shall thou he hidden; and thou needest not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
He shall hide you from the scourge of the tongue: and you shall not be afraid of coming evils.
22 At destruction and famine canst thou laugh; and thou needest not have any fear of the beasts of the earth.
You shall laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and you shall not be afraid of wild beasts.
23 For with the stones of the field shalt thou have thy covenant; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 And thou shalt know that there is peace in thy tent; and thou wilt look over thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.
Then shall you know that your house shall be at peace, and the provision for your tabernacle shall not fail.
25 And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thy offspring as the herbage of the earth.
And you shall know that your seed [shall be] abundant; and your children shall be like the herbage of the field.
26 Thon wilt go in a ripe age unto the grave, as a shock of corn is carried home in its season.
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.
27 Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is: hear it, and do thou note it well for thyself.
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].
