Job 5

1 Call out now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Call, I pray thee—is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?

2 For anger kills the foolish man; jealousy kills the silly one.

For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.

3 I have seen a foolish person taking root, but suddenly I cursed his home.

I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:

4 His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the city gate. There is no one to rescue them.

His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:

5 The hungry eat up their harvest; they even take it from among the thorns. The thirsty pant for their wealth.

Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

6 For difficulties do not come out from the soil; neither does trouble sprout from the ground.

For sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust, —nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.

7 Instead, mankind is born for trouble, just as sparks fly upward.

Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,

8 But as for me, I would turn to God himself; to him I would commit my cause—

Yet indeed, I, would seek unto El, and, unto Elohim, would I set forth any cause: —

9 he who does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number.

Who doeth great things, beyond all search, —Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;

10 He gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields.

Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;

11 He does this in order to set up on high those who are low; to raise to safety those who mourn.

Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;

12 He breaks the plans of the crafty people, so that their hands cannot achieve success.

Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;

13 He traps wise people in their own crafty actions; the plans of twisted people are hurried to their end.

Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:

14 They encounter darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as if it were night.

By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.

15 But he saves the poor person from the sword in their mouths and the needy person from the hand of mighty people.

But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.

16 So the poor person has hope, and injustice shuts her own mouth.

Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.

17 See, blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore, do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;

18 For he wounds and then binds up; he wounds and then his hands heal.

For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.

19 He will rescue you out of six troubles; indeed, in seven troubles, no evil will touch you.

In six troubles, he will rescue thee, and, in seven, there shall smite thee no misfortune:

20 In famine he will ransom you from death, and in war from the hands of the sword.

In famine, he will ransom thee from death, and in battle from the power of the sword;

21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and you will not be afraid of destruction when it comes.

During the scourge of the tongue, shalt thou be hid, neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh;

22 You will laugh at destruction and famine, and you will not be afraid of beasts of the earth.

At destruction and at hunger, shalt thou laugh, and, of the wild beast of the earth, be not thou afraid;

23 For you will have a covenant with the stones in your field, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;

24 You will know that your tent is in safety; you will visit your sheepfold and you will not miss anything.

And thou shalt know that, at peace, is thy tent, and shalt visit thy fold, and miss nothing;

25 You will also know that your seed will be great, that your offspring will be like the grass on the ground.

And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.

26 You will come to your grave at a full age, like a stack of grain bundles that goes up at its time.

Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.

27 See, we have examined this matter; it is like this; listen to it, and know it for yourself.”

Lo! as for this, we have searched it out—so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.