Job 5

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

Do but call: is there one that will answer thee? and to whom of the saints wilt thou turn thyself?

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

For vexation will prove death to a foolish man, and jealousy will slay the simple.

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

I have myself seen the foolish taking root; but I suddenly held his habitation as accursed.

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

His children are far from help, and men crush them in the gate, with no one to deliver them.

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

[He it is] whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber snatcheth eagerly after their substance.

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

For wrong doth not come forth out of the dust, neither doth trouble grow up out of the ground;

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

But man is born unto trouble, as young birds take up their flight.

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

I, however, would have besought God, and unto God would I have committed my cause;

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

Who doth great things which are unsearchable, marvelous things till they are without number;

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

Who giveth rain upon the surface of the earth, and sendeth out waters over the face of the fields;

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

To set up the lowly on high, that those who mourn may rise high to happiness;

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

[But] who frustrateth the plans of the crafty, so that their hands cannot execute their well-devised counsel;

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

Who catcheth the wise in their own craftiness; and the advise of the perverse is hastened on headlong;

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

By day they meet with darkness, and as though it were night they grope about in the noon of day;

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

But who saveth from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty, the needy one:

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

And so cometh to the indigent hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

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

Behold, happy is the man whom God admonisheth: despise then not the correction of the Almighty.

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

For he it is that woundeth, and bindeth up: he smiteth, and his hands do heal.

19 He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.

In six distresses will he deliver thee; and in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

20 In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.

In famine he redeemeth thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.

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

Against the scourge of the tongue shall thou he hidden; and thou needest not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

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

At destruction and famine canst thou laugh; and thou needest not have any fear of the beasts of the earth.

23 For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at peace with thee.

For with the stones of the field shalt thou have thy covenant; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

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

And thou shalt know that there is peace in thy tent; and thou wilt look over thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.

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

And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thy offspring as the herbage of the earth.

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

Thon wilt go in a ripe age unto the grave, as a shock of corn is carried home in its season.

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

Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is: hear it, and do thou note it well for thyself.