Job - Chapter 5 | Good News Translation

  • 1. Call out, Job. See if anyone answers. Is there any angel to whom you can turn?
  • 2. To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do.
  • 3. I have seen fools who looked secure, but I called down a sudden curse on their homes.
  • 4. Their children can never find safety; no one stands up to defend them in court.
  • 5. Hungry people will eat the fool's crops--- even the grain growing among thorns --- and thirsty people will envy his wealth.
  • 6. Evil does not grow in the soil, nor does trouble grow out of the ground.
  • 7. No indeed! We bring trouble on ourselves, as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.
  • 8. If I were you, I would turn to God and present my case to him.
  • 9. We cannot understand the great things he does, and to his miracles there is no end.
  • 10. He sends rain on the land and he waters the fields.
  • 11. Yes, it is God who raises the humble and gives joy to all who mourn.
  • 12. He upsets the plans of cunning people, and traps the wise in their own schemes, so that nothing they do succeeds;
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  • 14. even at noon they grope in darkness.
  • 15. But God saves the poor from death; he saves the needy from oppression.
  • 16. He gives hope to the poor and silences the wicked.
  • 17. Happy is the person whom God corrects! Do not resent it when he rebukes you.
  • 18. God bandages the wounds he makes; his hand hurts you, and his hand heals.
  • 19. Time after time he will save you from harm;
  • 20. when famine comes, he will keep you alive, and in war protect you from death.
  • 21. God will rescue you from slander; he will save you when destruction comes.
  • 22. You will laugh at violence and hunger and not be afraid of wild animals.
  • 23. The fields you plow will be free of rocks; wild animals will never attack you.
  • 24. Then you will live at peace in your tent; when you look at your sheep, you will find them safe.
  • 25. You will have as many children as there are blades of grass in a pasture.
  • 26. Like wheat that ripens till harvest time, you will live to a ripe old age.
  • 27. Job, we have learned this by long study. It is true, so now accept it.
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