Job 5:1 ←
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
Job 5:2 ←
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 5:3 ←
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5:4 ←
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Job 5:5 ←
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job 5:6 ←
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 5:7 ←
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:8 ←
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Job 5:9 ←
Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Job 5:10 ←
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
Job 5:11 ←
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Job 5:12 ←
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 5:13 ←
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job 5:14 ←
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Job 5:15 ←
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:16 ←
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job 5:17 ←
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job 5:18 ←
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Job 5:19 ←
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Job 5:20 ←
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 5:21 ←
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Job 5:22 ←
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 5:23 ←
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Job 5:24 ←
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
Job 5:25 ←
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job 5:26 ←
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job 5:27 ←
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
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