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Job 5
[1] “Call now; is there any who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
[2] For resentment kills the foolish man,
and jealousy kills the simple.
[3] I have seen the foolish taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
[4] His children are far from safety.
They are crushed in the gate.
Neither is there any to deliver them,
[5] whose harvest the hungry eat up,
and take it even out of the thorns.
The snare gapes for their substance.
[6] For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
[7] but man is born to trouble,
as the sparks fly upward. [8] “But as for me, I would seek God.
I would commit my cause to God,
[9] who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
marvelous things without number;
[10] who gives rain on the earth,
and sends waters on the fields;
[11] so that he sets up on high those who are low,
those who mourn are exalted to safety.
[12] He frustrates the plans of the crafty,
so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
[13] He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
[14] They meet with darkness in the day time,
and grope at noonday as in the night.
[15] But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
[16] So the poor has hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth. [17] “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.
Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
[18] For he wounds and binds up.
He injures and his hands make whole.
[19] He will deliver you in six troubles;
yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
[20] In famine he will redeem you from death;
in war, from the power of the sword.
[21] You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,
neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
[22] You will laugh at destruction and famine,
neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
[23] For you will be allied with the stones of the field.
The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
[24] You will know that your tent is in peace.
You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
[25] You will know also that your offspring will be great,
your offspring as the grass of the earth.
[26] You will come to your grave in a full age,
like a shock of grain comes in its season.
[27] Behold, we have researched it. It is so.
Hear it, and know it for your good.”
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
[2] For resentment kills the foolish man,
and jealousy kills the simple.
[3] I have seen the foolish taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
[4] His children are far from safety.
They are crushed in the gate.
Neither is there any to deliver them,
[5] whose harvest the hungry eat up,
and take it even out of the thorns.
The snare gapes for their substance.
[6] For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,
neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
[7] but man is born to trouble,
as the sparks fly upward. [8] “But as for me, I would seek God.
I would commit my cause to God,
[9] who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
marvelous things without number;
[10] who gives rain on the earth,
and sends waters on the fields;
[11] so that he sets up on high those who are low,
those who mourn are exalted to safety.
[12] He frustrates the plans of the crafty,
so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
[13] He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
[14] They meet with darkness in the day time,
and grope at noonday as in the night.
[15] But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
[16] So the poor has hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth. [17] “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.
Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
[18] For he wounds and binds up.
He injures and his hands make whole.
[19] He will deliver you in six troubles;
yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
[20] In famine he will redeem you from death;
in war, from the power of the sword.
[21] You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,
neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
[22] You will laugh at destruction and famine,
neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
[23] For you will be allied with the stones of the field.
The animals of the field will be at peace with you.
[24] You will know that your tent is in peace.
You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.
[25] You will know also that your offspring will be great,
your offspring as the grass of the earth.
[26] You will come to your grave in a full age,
like a shock of grain comes in its season.
[27] Behold, we have researched it. It is so.
Hear it, and know it for your good.”