Job 5

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

Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?

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

Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.

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

I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,

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

His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them.

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

The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.

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

For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

7 Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.

But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.

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

But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:

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

Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.

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

He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,

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

And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.

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

He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.

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

He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.

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

They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, 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.

But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,

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

So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.

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

Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

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

For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.

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

He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill 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 deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.

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

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.

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

But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.

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 stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes 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.

And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.

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

Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.

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

Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.

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

Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.