Hiob 5

1. ¹Call, I pray thee! Is there any that answereth thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?
2. ²For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.
3. ³I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
4. ⁴His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:
5. ⁵Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.
6. ⁶For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
7. ⁷For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
8. ⁸But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
9. ⁹Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;
10. ¹⁰Who giveth rain on the face of the earth, and sendeth waters on the face of the fields;
11. ¹¹Setting up on high those that are low; and mourners are exalted to prosperity.
12. ¹²He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, and their hands carry not out the enterprise.
13. ¹³He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; and the counsel of the wily is carried headlong:
14. ¹⁴They meet with darkness in a the daytime, and grope at midday as in the night.
15. ¹⁵And he saveth the needy from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
16. ¹⁶So the poor hath what he hopeth for, and unrighteousness stoppeth her mouth.
17. ¹⁷Behold, happy is the man whom +God correcteth; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
18. ¹⁸For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
19. ¹⁹He will deliver thee in six troubles, and in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
20. ²⁰In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
21. ²¹Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue; and thou shalt not be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
22. ²²At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh, and of the beasts of the earth thou shalt not be afraid.
23. ²³For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24. ²⁴And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou wilt survey thy fold, and miss nothing.
25. ²⁵And thou shalt know that thy seed is numerous, and thine offspring as the herb of the earth.
26. ²⁶Thou shalt come to the grave in a ripe age, as a shock of corn is brought in in its season.
27. ²⁷Behold this, we have searched it out, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thyself.

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