AFV2020 - Job - 5

5:1  "Call now, is there anyone who will answer you? And to which of the saints will you turn?

5:2  For wrath kills the fool, and envy slays the simple one.

5:3  I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I beheld his dwelling place cursed.

5:4  His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, nor is there any to deliver them.

5:5  Their harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns; and the snare swallows up their wealth.

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

5:7  Yet 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 is doing great things, even beyond searching; marvelous things without number,

5:10  Who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the field,

5:11  To set on high those who are low, so that those who mourn may be lifted up to safety;

5:12  He frustrates the devising of the crafty, so that their hands cannot achieve prosperity.

5:13  He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the cunning are carried headlong upon them.

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

5:15  But He saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

5:16  So then there is hope for the weak, and iniquity shuts her mouth.

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

5:18  For He makes sore, and binds up; He wounds, and His hands make whole.

5:19  He will deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven no evil shall touch you.

5:20  In famine He shall redeem you from death; and in war from the power of the sword.

5:21  You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

5:22  At destruction and famine you shall laugh; neither shall you be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

5:23  For you shall be in covenant with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

5:24  And you shall know that your tabernacle is in peace; and you shall visit your habitation, and shall miss nothing.

5:25  And you shall know that your seed will be numerous, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.

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

5:27  Behold this, we have searched it out; it is true. Hear it and know for yourself."