Job 5:17–27

¹⁷Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:

Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

¹⁸For he maketh sore, and bindeth up;

He woundeth, and his hands make whole.

¹⁹He will deliver thee in six troubles;

Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

²⁰In famine he will redeem thee from death;

And in war from the power of the sword.

²¹Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue;

Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

²²At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh;

Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

²³For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field;

And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

²⁴And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace;

And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.

²⁵Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great,

And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

²⁶Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,

Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.

²⁷Lo this, we have searched it, so it is;

Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.