【Job】Chapter 5 << Last Chapter Next Chapter >>

5:1 Call now! Will anyone respond to you? To which of the holy ones will you appeal?

5:2 Nay, impatience kills the fool and indignation slays the simpleton.

5:3 I have seen a fool spreading his roots, but his household suddenly decayed.

5:4 His children shall be far from safety; they shall be crushed at the gate without a rescuer.

5:5 What they have reaped the hungry shall eat up; (or God shall take it away by blight;) and the thirsty shall swallow their substance.

5:6 For mischief comes not out of the earth, nor does trouble spring out of the ground;

5:7 But man himself begets mischief, as sparks fly upward.

5:8 In your place, I would appeal to God, and to God I would state my plea.

5:9 Guide me in your justice because of my foes; make straight your way before me.

5:10 He gives rain upon the earth and sends water upon the fields;

5:11 He sets up on high the lowly, and those who mourn he exalts to safety.

5:12 He frustrates the plans of the cunning, so that their hands achieve no success;

5:13 He catches the wise in their own ruses, and the designs of the crafty are routed.

5:14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and at noonday they grope as though it were night.

5:15 But the poor from the edge of the sword and from the hand of the mighty, he saves.

5:16 Thus the unfortunate have hope, and iniquity closes her mouth.

5:17 Happy is the man whom God reproves! The Almighty’s chastening do not reject.

5:18 For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands give healing.

5:19 Out of six troubles he will deliver you, and at the seventh no evil shall touch you.

5:20 In famine he will deliver you from death, and in war from the threat of the sword;

5:21 From the scourge of the tongue you shall be hidden, and shall not fear approaching ruin.

5:22 At destruction and want you shall laugh; the beasts of the earth you need not dread.

5:23 You shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild beasts shall be at peace with you.

5:24 And you shall know that your tent is secure; taking stock of your household, you shall miss nothing.

5:25 You shall know that your descendants are many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

5:26 You shall approach the grave in full vigor, as a shock of grain comes in at its season.

5:27 Lo, this we have searched out; so it is! This we have heard, and you should know.

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