Job 5

1 Call now; is there any that will answer thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

But call, if any one will hearken to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.

2 For vexation killeth the foolish man, and jealousy slayeth the silly one.

For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.

3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.

4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.

6 For affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:

7 But man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.

8 But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

9 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:

who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:

10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:

11 So that he setteth up on high those that be low; and those which mourn are exalted to safety.

who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:

12 He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:

13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty

14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.

In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:

15 But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.

16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

for he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.

19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

Six time he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.

20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.

In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee 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.

He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.

22 At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.

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.

For the wild 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.

Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.

25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

And thou shalt know that thy seed [shall be] abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.

26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.

And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.

27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything [wrong].