Job 5

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee;

And to which of the ^asaints wilt thou turn?

²For ^bwrath killeth the foolish man,

And envy slayeth the silly one.

^3cI have seen the foolish taking root:

But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

^4dHis children are far from safety,

And they are crushed ^ein the gate, ^fneither is there any to deliver them.

⁵Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,

And taketh it even out of ^gthe thorns,

And the robber swalloweth up their ^hsubstance.

⁶Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust,

Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

⁷Yet man is ⁱborn unto trouble,

As the sparks fly upward.

⁸I would seek unto God,

And unto God would I commit my cause:

^9jWhich doeth great things and unsearchable;

Marvellous things without number:

^10kWho giveth rain upon the earth,

And sendeth waters upon the fields:

^11lTo set up on high those that be low;

That those which ^mmourn may be exalted to safety.

¹²He ⁿdisappointeth the devices of the crafty,

So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

^13oHe taketh the wise in their own craftiness:

And the counsel of the ^pfroward is carried headlong.

¹⁴They meet with darkness in the daytime,

And ^qgrope in the noonday as in the night.

¹⁵But ^rhe saveth the poor from the sword,

From their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁶So the poor hath hope,

And ^siniquity stoppeth her mouth.

¹⁷Behold, ^thappy is the man whom God correcteth:

Therefore ^udespise not thou the chastening of ^xthe Almighty:

¹⁸For he maketh sore, and bindeth up:

^yHe woundeth, and his hands make whole.

^19zHe shall deliver thee in ^asix troubles:

Yea, in ^aseven ^bthere shall no evil touch thee.

^20cIn famine he shall redeem thee from death:

And in war from the power of the sword.

^21dThou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue:

Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

²²At destruction and ^efamine thou shalt ^flaugh:

^gNeither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

²³For thou shalt be ^hin league with the stones of the field:

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

²⁴And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace;

And thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

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

And thine ^joffspring ^kas the grass of the earth.

²⁶Thou shalt come to thy grave in ^la full age,

Like as ^ma shock of corn cometh in in his season.

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

Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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