Job 5
1 Call out now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
Call, I pray thee! Is there any that answereth thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
2 For anger kills the foolish man; jealousy kills the silly one.
For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.
3 I have seen a foolish person taking root, but suddenly I cursed his home.
I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4 His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the city gate. There is no one to rescue them.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
5 The hungry eat up their harvest; they even take it from among the thorns. The thirsty pant for their wealth.
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.
6 For difficulties do not come out from the soil; neither does trouble sprout from the ground.
For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7 Instead, mankind is born for trouble, just as sparks fly upward.
For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
8 But as for me, I would turn to God himself; to him I would commit my cause—
But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
9 he who does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number.
Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;
10 He gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields.
Who giveth rain on the face of the earth, and sendeth waters on the face of the fields;
11 He does this in order to set up on high those who are low; to raise to safety those who mourn.
Setting up on high those that are low; and mourners are exalted to prosperity.
12 He breaks the plans of the crafty people, so that their hands cannot achieve success.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
13 He traps wise people in their own crafty actions; the plans of twisted people are hurried to their end.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:
14 They encounter darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as if it were night.
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
15 But he saves the poor person from the sword in their mouths and the needy person from the hand of mighty people.
And he saveth the needy from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16 So the poor person has hope, and injustice shuts her own mouth.
So the poor hath what he hopeth for, and unrighteousness stoppeth her mouth.
17 See, blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore, do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
18 For he wounds and then binds up; he wounds and then his hands heal.
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19 He will rescue you out of six troubles; indeed, in seven troubles, no evil will touch you.
He will deliver thee in six troubles, and in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20 In famine he will ransom you from death, and in war from the hands of the sword.
In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and you will not be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22 You will laugh at destruction and famine, and you will not be afraid of beasts of the earth.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, and of the beasts of the earth thou shalt not be afraid.
23 For you will have a covenant with the stones in your field, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 You will know that your tent is in safety; you will visit your sheepfold and you will not miss anything.
And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou wilt survey thy fold, and miss nothing.
25 You will also know that your seed will be great, that your offspring will be like the grass on the ground.
And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thine offspring as the herb of the earth.
26 You will come to your grave at a full age, like a stack of grain bundles that goes up at its time.
Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.
27 See, we have examined this matter; it is like this; listen to it, and know it for yourself.”
Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thyself.
