Job 5:1 (WEB)
"Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Job 5:2 (WEB)
For resentment kills the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple.

Job 5:3 (WEB)
I have seen the foolish taking root, But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Job 5:4 (WEB)
His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

Job 5:5 (WEB)
Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And take it even out of the thorns; The snare gapes for their substance.

Job 5:6 (WEB)
For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, Neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

Job 5:7 (WEB)
But man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

Job 5:8 (WEB)
"But as for me, I would seek God, To God would I commit my cause;

Job 5:9 (WEB)
Who does great things that can't be fathomed, Marvelous things without number;

Job 5:10 (WEB)
Who gives rain on the earth, And sends waters on the fields;

Job 5:11 (WEB)
So that he sets up on high those who are low, Those who mourn are exalted to safety.

Job 5:12 (WEB)
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.

Job 5:13 (WEB)
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; The counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Job 5:14 (WEB)
They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 5:15 (WEB)
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

Job 5:16 (WEB)
So the poor has hope, And injustice shuts her mouth.

Job 5:17 (WEB)
"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.

Job 5:18 (WEB)
For he wounds, and binds up; He injures, and his hands make whole.

Job 5:19 (WEB)
He will deliver you in six troubles; Yes, in seven there shall no evil touch you.

Job 5:20 (WEB)
In famine he will redeem you from death; In war, from the power of the sword.

Job 5:21 (WEB)
You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, Neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.

Job 5:22 (WEB)
At destruction and famine you shall laugh, Neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.

Job 5:23 (WEB)
For you shall be in league with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.

Job 5:24 (WEB)
You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.

Job 5:25 (WEB)
You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.

Job 5:26 (WEB)
You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Job 5:27 (WEB)
Look this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know it for your good."
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