Rotherham - Job - 5

5:1  Call, I pray thee—is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?

5:2  For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.

5:3  I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:

5:4  His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:

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

5:6  For sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust,—nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.

5:7  Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,

5:8  Yet indeed, I, would seek unto El, and, unto Elohim, would I set forth any cause:—

5:9  Who doeth great things, beyond all search,—Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;

5:10  Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;

5:11  Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;

5:12  Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;

5:13  Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:

5:14  By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.

5:15  But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.

5:16  Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.

5:17  Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;

5:18  For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.

5:19  In six troubles, he will rescue thee, and, in seven, there shall smite thee no misfortune:

5:20  In famine, he will ransom thee from death, and in battle from the power of the sword;

5:21  During the scourge of the tongue, shalt thou be hid, neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh;

5:22  At destruction and at hunger, shalt thou laugh, and, of the wild beast of the earth, be not thou afraid;

5:23  For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;

5:24  And thou shalt know that, at peace, is thy tent, and shalt visit thy fold, and miss nothing;

5:25  And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.

5:26  Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.

5:27  Lo! as for this, we have searched it out—so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.