Job - Chapter 5 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
  • 2. For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.
  • 3. I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
  • 4. His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:
  • 5. Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.
  • 6. For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
  • 7. But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
  • 8. But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
  • 9. Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
  • 10. Who giveth rain upon the earth, And sendeth waters upon the fields;
  • 11. So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.
  • 12. He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
  • 13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And 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 saveth from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
  • 16. So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
  • 17. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.
  • 18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and his hands make whole.
  • 19. He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
  • 20. In famine he will redeem thee from death; And in war from the power of the sword.
  • 21. Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
  • 22. At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
  • 23. 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. And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
  • 25. Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
  • 26. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
  • 27. Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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