Job 5
1 Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?
But call, if any one will hearken to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.
2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.
3 I — I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.
5 Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.
6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.
8 Yet I — I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
9 Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.
who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:
10 Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:
11 To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:
12 Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
13 Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty
14 By day they meet darkness, And as night — they grope at noon.
In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
15 And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,
and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
16 And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
17 Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
18 For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.
for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.
19 In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.
Six time he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.
20 In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.
In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.
21 When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.
He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.
22 At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.
Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.
23 (For with sons of the field [is] thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)
For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24 And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,
Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.
25 And hast known that numerous [is] Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;
And thou shalt know that thy seed [shall be] abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.
26 Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.
And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.
27 Lo, this — we searched it out — it [is] right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!
Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything [wrong].
