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 day time, 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.