Job 5

¹ “ Call now; is there any who will answer you?

² For resentment kills the foolish man,

³ I have seen the foolish taking root,

⁴ His children are far from safety.

⁵ whose harvest the hungry eat up,

⁶ For affliction doesn’t come out of the dust,

⁷ but man is born to trouble,

⁸ “But as for me, I would seek God.

⁹ who does great things that can ’t be fathomed,

¹⁰ who gives rain on the earth,

¹¹ so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.

¹² He frustrates the plans of the crafty,

¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness;

¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the day time,

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

¹⁶ So the poor has hope,

¹⁷ “ Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

¹⁸ For he wounds and binds up.

¹⁹ He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

²⁰ In famine he will redeem you from death;

²¹ You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,

²² You will laugh at destruction and famine, neither will you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

²³ For you will be allied with the stones of the field.

²⁴ You will know that your tent is in peace.

²⁵ You will know also that your offspring will be great,

²⁶ You will come to your grave in a full age,

²⁷ Behold, we have researched it. It is so.