Job 4
Job 5
Job 5:1. Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?
Job 5:2. For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Job 5:3. I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5:4. His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Job 5:5. Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job 5:6. Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 5:7. Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:8. I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Job 5:9. Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:
Job 5:10. Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:
Job 5:11. To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
Job 5:12. He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
Job 5:13. He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
Job 5:14. They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
Job 5:15. But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:16. So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Job 5:17. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
Job 5:18. For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
Job 5:19. He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
Job 5:20. In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.
Job 5:21. Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
Job 5:22. At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 5:23. For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Job 5:24. And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.
Job 5:25. Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job 5:26. Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Job 5:27. Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
Job 6