AB - Job - 5

5:1  But call, if anyone will listen to you, or if you shall see any of the holy angels.

5:2  For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.

5:3  And I have seen foolish ones taking root, but suddenly their habitation was devoured.

5:4  Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

5:5  For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities-let their strength be utterly exhausted.

5:6  For labor cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains;

5:7  yet man is born to labor, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.

5:8  Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the Sovereign of all;

5:9  who does great and untraceable things, glorious things also, and marvelous, of which there is no number:

5:10  who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:

5:11  who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:

5:12  frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:

5:13  who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty.

5:14  In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noonday even as in the night.

5:15  And let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.

5:16  And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.

5:17  But blessed is the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not the chastening of the Almighty.

5:18  for He causes a man to be in pain, and restores him again: He smites, and His hands heal.

5:19  Six times He shall deliver you out of distresses, and in the seventh, harm shall not touch you.

5:20  In famine He shall deliver you from death, and in war He shall free you from the power of the sword.

5:21  He shall hide you from the scourge of the tongue, and you shall not be afraid of coming evils.

5:22  You shall laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless, and you shall not be afraid of wild beasts.

5:23  For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

5:24  Then shall you know that your house shall be at peace, and the provision for your tabernacle shall not fail.

5:25  And you shall know that your seed shall be abundant, and your children shall be like the herbs of the field.

5:26  And you shall come to the grave like ripe grain reaped in its season, or as a sheaf of grain collected in its season.

5:27  Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard-but reflect within yourself, if you have done anything wrong.