Job 5
1 Call, I pray thee—is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?
Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?
2 For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.
Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.
3 I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:
I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,
4 His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them.
5 Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
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 sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust, —nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.
For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.
7 Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,
But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.
8 Yet indeed, I, would seek unto El, and, unto Elohim, would I set forth any cause: —
But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:
9 Who doeth great things, beyond all search, —Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;
Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.
10 Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;
He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,
11 Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;
And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.
12 Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;
He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.
13 Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:
He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.
14 By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, 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 saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,
16 Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.
So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.
17 Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;
Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.
18 For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.
For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.
19 In six troubles, he will rescue thee, and, in seven, there shall smite thee no misfortune:
He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill 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 deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.
21 During the scourge of the tongue, shalt thou be hid, neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh;
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.
22 At destruction and at hunger, shalt thou laugh, and, of the wild beast of the earth, be not thou afraid;
But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast 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;
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 And thou shalt know that, at peace, is thy tent, and shalt visit thy fold, and miss nothing;
And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.
25 And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.
Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.
26 Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.
Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.
27 Lo! as for this, we have searched it out—so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.
Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.
