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 now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you 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 resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
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, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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 from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
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 eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
6 But evil circumstances/sufferings are not produced by the soil; troubles do not grow up from the ground.
For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
7 People have troubles from the time that they are born just as surely as sparks shoot up [from a fire].
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
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).
“But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
9 He does great things, things that we cannot understand; we cannot even count the marvelous things that he does.
who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
10 He sends rain on the ground; he sends water on our fields.
who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
11 He exalts those who are humble, and causes those who mourn to be joyful (OR, safe, prosperous).
so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted 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.
He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
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.
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
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.
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
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 saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
16 So, poor people confidently expect [that good things will happen to them] but God causes wicked [people] to stop talking.
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts 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.
“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
18 He wounds people, but then he puts bandages on those wounds; he hurts people, but he [SYN] also heals them.
For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.
19 He will rescue you many times from your troubles, with the result that nothing evil will happen to you.
He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
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 redeem you from death; in war, 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.
You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
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.
You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
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 you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
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).
You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
25 You will be sure that you will have many descendants, who will be as numerous as blades of grass.
You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26 You will become very old before you die, like sheaves of grain continue to grow until it is time to harvest them.
You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes 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!”
Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”
