Job 5
1APPEAL now, will anyone answer. Or shalt thou see any of the holy angels?
2Passion indeed transporteth the foolish, and envy killeth the wanderer.
3Now I have seen the foolish taking root, but their sustenance was quickly consumed.
4Let their children be but far from safety, and insulted at the gates of minors, there will then be none to deliver them.
5For what they have collected the righteous shall eat. Nor will they themselves be exempt from wrongs, should their power be exhausted.
6For trouble cannot come forth out of the earth; nor will affliction spring up from mountains.
7But man is born for trouble, as the young of the vulture soar aloft;
8but notwithstanding this, let me supplicate the Lord; and call upon the Lord, the master of all,
9Who doth great and unsearchable things—things glorious and wonderful, not to be numbered.
10Who giveth rain on the earth and sendeth water on all under heaven.
11Who setteth on high them who are low, and raiseth up them who have been ruined.
12Who changeth the counsels of the crafty, so that their hands can perform no enterprise.
13Who entangleth the wise in their wisdom, and defeateth the counsel of the artful.
14In the daytime, darkness shall meet them, that they may grope at noonday as at night,
15and that they may perish in battle, and the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.
16And that the feeble may have hope, and the mouth of the wicked be stopped.
17But happy the man whom the Lord correcteth. Therefore despise not thou the correction of the Almighty.
18For He causeth pain and again removeth it: and him whom He smote, His hands have healed.
19From six distresses He will deliver thee, and in the seventh evil shall not touch thee.
20In famine He will deliver thee from death, and in battle save thee from the edge of the sword.
21He will hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou need’st not be afraid of impending ills.
22At the wicked and unrighteous thou shalt laugh:
23and of savage beasts need’st not be afraid; for the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
24Thou shalt know that thy family is at peace, and that the provision for thy household shall not fail.
25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great: thy children shall be like the grass of the field.
26And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe grain cut in due season; or like a heap from a threshing floor, carried home in time.
27Behold these are the things which, by investigation, we have found to be so. These are things which we have heard: apply them to thyself, if thou hast done anything.