Job 5

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

Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

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

For anger killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

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

I have seen the foolish taking root; but suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed.

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 from safety, and are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them.

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 taketh it even out of the thorns, 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 affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

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

But man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

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

But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause;

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

Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;

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

Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields;

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

So that He setteth up on high those that are low, and those that mourn are exalted to safety.

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

He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands can perform nothing substantial.

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

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong.

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

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

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 of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

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

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

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

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth; therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

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

For He maketh sore, and bindeth up; He woundeth, and His hands make whole.

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

He will deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

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

In famine He will redeem thee from death; and in war 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.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; 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 famine thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

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 thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

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 thy tent is in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.

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

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

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 to thy grave in a ripe age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.

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

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.