Job 5
1 Call, I pray thee—is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?
Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.
2 For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.
Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.
3 I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:
I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.
4 His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.
5 Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for 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 sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust, —nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.
Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.
7 Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,
Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.
8 Yet indeed, I, would seek unto El, and, unto Elohim, would I set forth any cause: —
Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:
9 Who doeth great things, beyond all search, —Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;
Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:
10 Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;
Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:
11 Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;
Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.
12 Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;
Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:
13 Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:
Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:
14 By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.
15 But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.
But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.
16 Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.
And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.
17 Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;
Blessed is the mall whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord:
18 For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.
For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.
19 In six troubles, he will rescue thee, and, in seven, there shall smite thee no misfortune:
In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.
20 In famine, he will ransom thee from death, and in battle from the power of the sword;
In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.
21 During the scourge of the tongue, shalt thou be hid, neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh;
Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.
22 At destruction and at hunger, shalt thou laugh, and, of the wild beast of the earth, be not thou afraid;
In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23 For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;
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 know that, at peace, is thy tent, and shalt visit thy fold, and miss nothing;
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.
25 And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.
26 Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.
Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.
27 Lo! as for this, we have searched it out—so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.
Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.
