Job 5

5¹ “Call now; is there any who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn? ² For resentment kills the foolish man,
and jealousy kills the simple. ³ I have seen the foolish taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴ His children are far from safety.
They are crushed in the gate.
Neither is there any to deliver them, ⁵ whose harvest the hungry eats up,
and take it even out of the thorns.
The snare gapes for their substance.

⁶ For affliction doesn’t come forth from the dust,
neither does trouble spring out of the ground; ⁷ but man is born to trouble,
as the sparks fly upward. ⁸ “But as for me, I would seek God.
I would commit my cause to God, ⁹ who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
marvelous things without number; ¹⁰ who gives rain on the earth,
and sends waters on the fields; ¹¹ so that he sets up on high those who are low,
those who mourn are exalted to safety. ¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise. ¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong. ¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the day time,
and grope at noonday as in the night. ¹⁵ But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
even the needy from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ So the poor has hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth.

¹⁷ “Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.
Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. ¹⁸ For he wounds, and binds up.
He injures, and his hands make whole. ¹⁹ He will deliver you in six troubles;
yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you. ²⁰ In famine he will redeem you from death;
in war, from the power of the sword. ²¹ You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,
neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes. ²² At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth. ²³ For you shall be in league with the stones of the field.
The animals of the field shall be at peace with you. ²⁴ You shall know that your tent is in peace.
You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing. ²⁵ You shall know also that your seed shall be great,
Your offspring as the grass of the earth. ²⁶ You shall come to your grave in a full age,
like a shock of grain comes in its season. ²⁷ Look this, we have searched it, so it is.
Hear it, and know it for your good.”