Job 5

1Call now; is there one who answers you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2For anger kills the fool, and jealousy kills the simple.

3I saw a fool taking root, and suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

4His children are removed from safety, crushed at the gate, with none to deliver them.

5whose harvest the hungry devour and seize even from the thorns, while robbers gulp down their wealth.

6For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble grow from the ground.

7For man is born to trouble, as the sons of sparks fly upward.

8But as for me, I would seek God and lay my cause before God.

9who accomplishes great things beyond all search, wonders without number;

10who gives rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields.

11He sets the lowly on high and exalts those who mourn to safety.

12He thwarts the crafty schemes so their hands achieve no success.

13He ensnares the wise in their cunning, and the schemes of the perverse rush headlong.

14By day they meet darkness, and like night they grope at midday.

15He saves the poor from the sword of their mouths and from the hand of the mighty.

16There is hope for the needy, and injustice shuts her mouth.

17See, blessed is the man whom God disciplines; do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

18For it is he who hurts and bandages; he crushes, and his hands heal.

19He will rescue you from six calamities; in seven no harm will reach you.

20In famine he will deliver you from death, and in war from the grasp of the sword.

21You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, nor will you fear destruction when it comes.

22You will laugh at ruin and famine, nor fear the beasts of the earth.

23For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field will make peace with you.

24You will know that your tent is at peace. You will visit your fold and find nothing missing.

25You will know that your seed will abound and your offspring be like the grass of the earth.

26You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a shock of grain ascends in its season.

27See, we have examined this, and thus it is. Hear it, and know it for yourself.