CPDV - Job - 5

5:1  Therefore call, if there are any who will respond to you, and turn to one or another of the saints.

5:2  Truly, anger condemns the foolish to death, and envy kills the petty.

5:3  I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I have cursed his excellence without hesitation.

5:4  His sons will be far from prosperity and will be crushed at the gate, and there will be none who can rescue them.

5:5  Their harvest, the starving will eat. The armed man will rob him, and the thirsty will drink his resources.

5:6  Nothing on earth occurs without a reason, and sorrow does not rise from the earth.

5:7  Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.

5:8  Therefore, because of this, I will beg the Lord, and place my eloquence before God.

5:9  He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.

5:10  He gives rain over the face of the earth and irrigates all things with the waters.

5:11  He places the humble on high and encourages the grieving towards health.

5:12  He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.

5:13  He catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse.

5:14  They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.

5:15  Thereafter, he will act to save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

5:16  And there will be hope for those in need, for iniquity will diminish its speech.

5:17  Blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore, do not reject the chastisement of the Lord.

5:18  For he wounds and he cures; he strikes and his hands will heal.

5:19  He will deliver you into six tribulations, and in the seventh, evil will not touch you.

5:20  During famine, he will rescue you from death, and during war, from the hand of the sword.

5:21  You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you will not fear calamity when it arrives.

5:22  In desolation and in famine, you will laugh, and you will not dread the beasts of the earth.

5:23  For you are in harmony with the stones of the land, and the beasts of the earth will make peace with you.

5:24  And you will know that your home has peace, and, concerning your appearance, you will not sin.

5:25  Likewise, you will know that your offspring will be manifold and your progeny will be like the grass of the earth.

5:26  You will enter the grave with abundance, just as a crop of wheat is gathered in its time.

5:27  Behold, this is just as we have found it, which you have heard; walk it through your mind.