Job 5

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

Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.

2 For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

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

I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.

4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

5 whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

6 For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.

7 but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.

8 “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

9 who does great things that can’t be fathomed, marvellous things without number;

Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:

10 who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;

Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:

11 so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.

12 He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.

Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:

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

They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

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

But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

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

And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.

17 “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Blessed is the mall whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord:

18 For he wounds and binds up. He injures and his hands make whole.

For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

19 He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.

20 In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.

In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.

21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither will you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.

22 You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

23 For you will be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field will be at peace with you.

But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at pence with thee.

24 You will know that your tent is in peace. You will visit your fold, and will miss nothing.

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.

25 You will know also that your offspring will be great, your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.

26 You will come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.

27 Behold, we have researched it. It is so. Hear it, and know it for your good.”

Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.