Job Chapter 5
| 1 | Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? | 2 | For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. | 3 | I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. | 4 | His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. | 5 | Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. | 6 | Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; | 7 | Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. | 8 | I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: | 9 | Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: | 10 | Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: | 11 | To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. | 12 | He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. | 13 | He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. | 14 | They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. | 15 | But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. | 16 | So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. | 17 | Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: | 18 | For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. | 19 | He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. | 20 | In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. | 21 | Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. | 22 | At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. | 23 | For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. | 24 | And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. | 25 | Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. | 26 | Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. | 27 | Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good. |