ACV - Job - 5

5:1  Call now, is there any who will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones will thou turn?

5:2  For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.

5:3  I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

5:4  His sons are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

5:5  whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.

5:6  For affliction does not come forth from the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground,

5:7  but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

5:8  But as for me, I would seek to God. And to God I would commit my cause,

5:9  who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number,

5:10  who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields,

5:11  so that he sets up on high those who are low, and those who mourn are exalted to safety.

5:12  He frustrates the devices of the crafty so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

5:13  He takes the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

5:14  They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.

5:15  But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

5:16  So a poor man has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

5:17  Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise thou the chastening of the Almighty.

5:18  For he injures, and binds up. He wounds, and his hands make whole.

5:19  He will deliver thee in six troubles. Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

5:20  In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

5:21  Thou shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue. Neither shall thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.

5:22  At destruction and dearth thou shall laugh, nor shall thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

5:23  For thou shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

5:24  And thou shall know that thy tent is in peace, and thou shall visit thy fold, and shall miss nothing.

5:25  Thou shall know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

5:26  Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

5:27  Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.