Job 5
1 “Job, [it is okay that you] continue to cry out for someone to help you, but [I am certain that] [RHQ] no angel will come to help you!
Call, I pray thee—is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?
2 Foolish people die because of being (resentful/very angry at someone); people who are easily deceived are destroyed by their being jealous [of others].
For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.
3 I have seen foolish people who seemed to be successful/prosperous, but suddenly [they experienced disaster/trouble because] someone cursed their home.
I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:
4 Their sons are never safe; they (lose their case/are condemned) when someone (takes them to court/sues them), because there is no one to defend them.
His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
5 Hungry people [steal] the crops that foolish people harvest, [and] eat [those crops]; they even steal the crops that grow among thorns, and greedy people take away the wealth of foolish people.
Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
6 But evil circumstances/sufferings are not produced by the soil; troubles do not grow up from the ground.
For sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust, —nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.
7 People have troubles from the time that they are born just as surely as sparks shoot up [from a fire].
Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,
8 [“If I were suffering like you are, ] I would ask God [for help] and tell him (what I am complaining about/about my suffering).
Yet indeed, I, would seek unto El, and, unto Elohim, would I set forth any cause: —
9 He does great things, things that we cannot understand; we cannot even count the marvelous things that he does.
Who doeth great things, beyond all search, —Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;
10 He sends rain on the ground; he sends water on our fields.
Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;
11 He exalts those who are humble, and causes those who mourn to be joyful (OR, safe, prosperous).
Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;
12 He causes crafty/cunning people to not be able to do what they plan to do, with the result that they achieve nothing.
Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;
13 He causes people who [think that they] [IRO] are wise to be trapped by the cunning things they try to do, with the result that they do not succeed.
Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:
14 [It is as though] even in the daytime they are covered by darkness, and grope around [trying to find the road] at noontime like people do at night.
By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
15 But God saves helpless people from being harmed by what [wicked people] say [MTY], he saves needy people from being injured by [MTY] powerful people.
But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.
16 So, poor people confidently expect [that good things will happen to them] but God causes wicked [people] to stop talking.
Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.
17 “But those whom God corrects/rebukes are happy; so do not despise/dislike it when [God] who is all-powerful disciplines you.
Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;
18 He wounds people, but then he puts bandages on those wounds; he hurts people, but he [SYN] also heals them.
For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.
19 He will rescue you many times from your troubles, with the result that nothing evil will happen to you.
In six troubles, he will rescue thee, and, in seven, there shall smite thee no misfortune:
20 When there is a famine, he will not allow you to die, and when there is a war, you will not be killed [MTY].
In famine, he will ransom thee from death, and in battle from the power of the sword;
21 God will protect you when people slander [MTY] you; you will not be afraid when many things [around you] are destroyed.
During the scourge of the tongue, shalt thou be hid, neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh;
22 You will [be able to] laugh/scoff when things are destroyed and when there is famine, and you will not be afraid of wild animals.
At destruction and at hunger, shalt thou laugh, and, of the wild beast of the earth, be not thou afraid;
23 You will not worry about [having big] rocks in your fields [that will make plowing difficult], and you will not worry about [being attacked by] wild animals there.
For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;
24 In your tent, you will know that things will go well for you, and when you look at your livestock, you will see that (they are all there/none of them is missing).
And thou shalt know that, at peace, is thy tent, and shalt visit thy fold, and miss nothing;
25 You will be sure that you will have many descendants, who will be as numerous as blades of grass.
And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.
26 You will become very old before you die, like sheaves of grain continue to grow until it is time to harvest them.
Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.
27 [“My friends and I] have thought carefully about these things, and [we know that] they are true, so pay attention to what I have said!”
Lo! as for this, we have searched it out—so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.
