Job 5

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

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

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

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

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

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

4 His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none 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 shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

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 Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not 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 Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.

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

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

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

9 Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful 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 face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14 They shall meet with darkness in the day, 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 shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19 In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not 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 deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand 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 he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.

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

22 In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not 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 But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at pence with thee.

For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

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

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 multiplied, and thy offspring like 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 enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought 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 Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.

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].