Geneva1599 - Job - 5

5:1  Call nowe, if any will answere thee, and to which of the Saintes wilt thou turne?

5:2  Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.

5:3  I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,

5:4  His children shalbe farre from saluation, and they shall be destroyed in the gate, and none shall deliuer them.

5:5  The hungrie shall eate vp his haruest: yea, they shall take it from among the thornes, and the thirstie shall drinke vp their substance.

5:6  For miserie commeth not foorth of the dust, neither doeth affliction spring out of the earth.

5:7  But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.

5:8  But I would inquire at God, and turne my talke vnto God:

5:9  Which doeth great things and vnsearchable, and marueilous things without nomber.

5:10  He giueth raine vpon the earth, and powreth water vpon the streetes,

5:11  And setteth vp on hie them that be lowe, that the sorowfull may be exalted to saluation.

5:12  He scattereth the deuices of the craftie: so that their handes can not accomplish that which they doe enterprise.

5:13  He taketh the wise in their craftinesse, and the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.

5:14  They meete with darkenesse in the day time, and grope at noone day, as in the night.

5:15  But he saueth the poore from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hande of the violent man,

5:16  So that the poore hath his hope, but iniquitie shall stop her mouth.

5:17  Beholde, blessed is the man whome God correcteth: therefore refuse not thou the chastising of the Almightie.

5:18  For he maketh the wound, and bindeth it vp: he smiteth, and his handes make whole.

5:19  He shall deliuer thee in sixe troubles, and in the seuenth the euill shall not touch thee.

5:20  In famine he shall deliuer thee from death: and in battel from the power of the sworde.

5:21  Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it commeth.

5:22  But thou shalt laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraide of the beast of the earth.

5:23  For the stones of the fielde shall be in league with thee, and the beastes of the field shall be at peace with thee.

5:24  And thou shalt knowe, that peace shall be in thy tabernacle, and thou shalt visite thine habitation, and shalt not sinne.

5:25  Thou shalt perceiue also, that thy seede shalbe great, and thy posteritie as the grasse of the earth.

5:26  Thou shalt goe to thy graue in a ful age, as a ricke of corne commeth in due season into the barne.

5:27  Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.