Job 5
1 “Pray, call, is there any to answer you? And to which of the holy ones do you turn?
But call, if any one will listen to you, or if you shall see any of the holy angels.
2 For provocation slays the perverse, And envy puts to death the simple,
For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.
3 I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straight away,
And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
4 His sons are far from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
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 Whose harvest the hungry eat, And even take it from the thorns, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
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 sorrow does not come forth from the dust, Nor does misery spring up from the ground.
For labour can’t by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
7 For man is born to misery, And the sparks go high to fly.
yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.
8 Yet I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
9 Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, until there is no numbering.
who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:
10 Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
11 To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
12 Making void thoughts of the cunning, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
13 Capturing the wise in their subtlety, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hurried,
who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty
14 By day they meet darkness, And as night—they grope at noon.
In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
15 He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth, And from a strong hand,
and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
16 And there is hope for the poor, And perverseness has shut her mouth.
And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
17 Behold, the blessedness of mortal man, God reproves him: And do not despise the discipline of the Mighty,
But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not you the chastening of the Almighty.
18 For He pains, and He binds up, He strikes, and His hands heal.
for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.
19 In six distresses He delivers you, And in seven evil does not strike on you.
Six time he shall deliver you out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch you.
20 In famine He has redeemed you from death, And in battle from the hands 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 When the tongue scourges you are hid, And you are not afraid of destruction, When it comes.
He shall hide you from the scourge of the tongue: and you shall not be afraid of coming evils.
22 At destruction and at hunger you mock, And of the beast of the earth, You are not afraid.
You shall laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and you shall not be afraid of wild beasts.
23 (For with sons of the field [is] your covenant, And the beast of the field Has been at peace with you.)
For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
24 And you have known that your tent [is] peace, And inspected your habitation, and do not err,
Then shall you know that your house shall be at peace, and the provision for your tabernacle shall not fail.
25 And have known that your seed [is] numerous, And your offspring as the herb 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 You come in full age to the grave, As the going up of a stalk 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 searched it out—it [is] right, listen; And you, know for yourself!”
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].
