Job - Chapter 5 | English Standard Version

  • 1. "Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
  • 2. Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
  • 3. I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
  • 4. His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
  • 5. The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
  • 6. For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
  • 7. but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
  • 8. "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,
  • 9. who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
  • 10. he gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;
  • 11. he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
  • 12. He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
  • 13. He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
  • 14. They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope at noonday as in the night.
  • 15. But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty.
  • 16. So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
  • 17. "Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.
  • 18. For he wounds, but he binds up; he shatters, but his hands heal.
  • 19. He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no evil shall touch you.
  • 20. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
  • 21. You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
  • 22. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
  • 23. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
  • 24. You shall know that your tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
  • 25. You shall know also that your offspring shall be many, and your descendants as the grass of the earth.
  • 26. You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.
  • 27. Behold, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good."
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