Job 5
1 But call, if any one will hearken to
thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.
2 For wrath destroys the foolish one,
and envy slays him that has gone astray.
3 And I have seen foolish ones taking
root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.
4 Let their children be far from
safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no
deliverer. 5 For what they have
collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of
calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.
6 For labour cannot by any means come
out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
7 yet man is born to labour, and
even so the vulture's young seek the high places.
8 Nevertheless I will beseech the
Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;
9 who does great things and
untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no
number: 10 who gives rain upon the
earth, sending water on the earth:
11 who exalts the lowly, and raises
up them that are lost: 12 frustrating
the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:
13 who takes the wise in their
wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty.
14 In the day darkness shall come
upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:
15 and let them perish in war, and
let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
16 And let the weak have hope, but
the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
17 But blessed
is the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not
thou the chastening of the Almighty.
18 For he causes
a man to be in pain, and restores
him again: he smites, and his hands heal.
19 Six times he shall deliver thee
out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.
20 In famine he shall deliver thee
from death: and in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.
21 He shall hide thee from the
scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.
22 Thou shalt laugh at the
unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.
23 For the wild beasts of the field
shall be at peace with thee. 24 Then
shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy
tabernacle shall not fail. 25 And
thou shalt know that thy seed shall be abundant; and
thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.
26 And thou shalt come to the grave
like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected
in proper time.
27 Behold, we have thus sought out
these matters; these are what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself,
if thou hast done anything wrong.