Job - Chapter 5 | New International Version

  • 1. Call if you will, but who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
  • 2. Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
  • 3. I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.
  • 4. His children are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.
  • 5. The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
  • 6. For hardship does not spring from the soil, nor does trouble sprout from the ground.
  • 7. Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
  • 8. But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before him.
  • 9. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.
  • 10. He bestows rain on the earth; he sends water upon the countryside.
  • 11. The lowly he sets on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
  • 12. He thwarts the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
  • 13. He catches the wise in their craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are swept away.
  • 14. Darkness comes upon them in the daytime; at noon they grope as in the night.
  • 15. He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth; he saves them from the clutches of the powerful.
  • 16. So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.
  • 17. Blessed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
  • 18. For he wounds, but he also binds up; he injures, but his hands also heal.
  • 19. From six calamities he will rescue you; in seven no harm will befall you.
  • 20. In famine he will ransom you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
  • 21. You will be protected from the lash of the tongue, and need not fear when destruction comes.
  • 22. You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.
  • 23. For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
  • 24. You will know that your tent is secure; you will take stock of your property and find nothing missing.
  • 25. You will know that your children will be many, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
  • 26. You will come to the grave in full vigor, like sheaves gathered in season.
  • 27. We have examined this, and it is true. So hear it and apply it to yourself.
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