RWebster - Job - 5

5:1  Call now, if there is any that will answer thee; and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

5:2  For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

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

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

5:5  Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

5:6  Although affliction cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

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

5:8  I would seek to God, and to God would I commit my cause:

5:9  Who doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

5:10  Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

5:11  To set on high those that are low; that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.

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

5:13  He taketh 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 noon as in the night.

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

5:16  So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

5:17  Behold, happyis the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

5:18  For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

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

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

5:21  Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

5:22  At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

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.

5:24  And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

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

5:26  Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.

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