Job 5

¹ Call now; is there any that will answer thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

² For vexation killeth the foolish man, and jealousy slayeth the silly one.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

⁴ His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

⁵ Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.

⁶ For affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

⁷ But man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

⁸ But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

⁹ Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:

¹⁰ Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

¹¹ So that he setteth up on high those that be low; and those which mourn are exalted to safety.

¹² He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

¹³ He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

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

¹⁵ But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁶ So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

¹⁸ For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

¹⁹ He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

²⁰ In famine he shall redeem thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.

²¹ Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

²² At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

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.

²⁴ And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.

²⁵ Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.

²⁷ Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.