NETtext - Job - 5

5:1  "Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

5:2  For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

5:3  I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.

5:4  His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.

5:5  The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

5:6  For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,

5:7  but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

5:8  "But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.

5:9  He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;

5:10  he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;

5:11  he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.

5:12  He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!

5:13  He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.

5:14  They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.

5:15  So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful.

5:16  Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.

5:17  "Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

5:18  For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.

5:19  He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.

5:20  In time of famine he will redeem you from death, and in time of war from the power of the sword.

5:21  You will be protected from malicious gossip, and will not be afraid of the destruction when it comes.

5:22  You will laugh at destruction and famine and need not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

5:23  For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

5:24  And you will know that your home will be secure, and when you inspect your domains, you will not be missing anything.

5:25  You will also know that your children will be numerous, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.

5:26  You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

5:27  Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good."