Job 5
1 Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?
Call out now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
For anger kills the foolish man; jealousy kills the silly one.
3 I — I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
I have seen a foolish person taking root, but suddenly I cursed his home.
4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the city gate. There is no one to rescue them.
5 Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
The hungry eat up their harvest; they even take it from among the thorns. The thirsty pant for their wealth.
6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
For difficulties do not come out from the soil; neither does trouble sprout from the ground.
7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
Instead, mankind is born for trouble, just as sparks fly upward.
8 Yet I — I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
But as for me, I would turn to God himself; to him I would commit my cause—
9 Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.
he who does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number.
10 Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
He gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields.
11 To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
He does this in order to set up on high those who are low; to raise to safety those who mourn.
12 Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
He breaks the plans of the crafty people, so that their hands cannot achieve success.
13 Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
He traps wise people in their own crafty actions; the plans of twisted people are hurried to their end.
14 By day they meet darkness, And as night — they grope at noon.
They encounter darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as if it were night.
15 And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,
But he saves the poor person from the sword in their mouths and the needy person from the hand of mighty people.
16 And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
So the poor person has hope, and injustice shuts her own mouth.
17 Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
See, blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore, do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
18 For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.
For he wounds and then binds up; he wounds and then his hands heal.
19 In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.
He will rescue you out of six troubles; indeed, in seven troubles, no evil will touch you.
20 In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.
In famine he will ransom you from death, and in war from the hands of the sword.
21 When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.
You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and you will not be afraid of destruction when it comes.
22 At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.
You will laugh at destruction and famine, and you will not be afraid of beasts of the earth.
23 (For with sons of the field [is] thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)
For you will have a covenant with the stones in your field, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.
24 And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,
You will know that your tent is in safety; you will visit your sheepfold and you will not miss anything.
25 And hast known that numerous [is] Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;
You will also know that your seed will be great, that your offspring will be like the grass on the ground.
26 Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.
You will come to your grave at a full age, like a stack of grain bundles that goes up at its time.
27 Lo, this — we searched it out — it [is] right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!
See, we have examined this matter; it is like this; listen to it, and know it for yourself.”
