[[Job 4|<< Job 4]] | [[Job|Job]] | [[Job 6|Job 6 >>]] ### Job 5 1 CALL now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? ^1 2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one. ^2 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ^3 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither _is_ _there_ any to deliver _them_. ^4 5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance. ^5 6 Although affliction comes not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; ^6 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. ^7 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: ^8 9 Which does great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number: ^9 10 Who gives rain upon the earth, and sends waters upon the fields: ^10 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. ^11 12 He disappoints the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform _their_ enterprise. ^12 13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. ^13 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. ^14 15 But he saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. ^15 16 So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth. ^16 17 Behold, happy _is_ the man whom God corrects: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: ^17 18 For he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, and his hands make whole. ^18 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. ^19 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. ^20 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it comes. ^21 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. ^22 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. ^23 24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle _shall_ _be_ in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. ^24 25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed _shall_ _be_ great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. ^25 26 Thou shalt come to _thy_ grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn comes in in his season. ^26 27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it _is;_ hear it, and know thou _it_ for thy good. ^27