The Book of Job

Chapter-5

Job 5:1 Therefore call, if there are any who will respond to you, and turn to one or another of the saints.

 

Job 5:2 Truly, anger condemns the foolish to death, and envy kills the petty.

 

Job 5:3 I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I have cursed his excellence without hesitation.

 

Job 5:4 His sons will be far from prosperity and will be crushed at the gate, and there will be none who can rescue them.

 

Job 5:5 Their harvest, the starving will eat. The armed man will rob him, and the thirsty will drink his resources.

 

Job 5:6 Nothing on earth occurs without a reason, and sorrow does not rise from the earth.

 

Job 5:7 Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.

 

Job 5:8 Therefore, because of this, I will beg the Lord, and place my eloquence before God.

 

Job 5:9 He does great and unfathomable and miraculous things without number.

 

Job 5:10 He gives rain over the face of the earth and irrigates all things with the waters.

 

 

Job 5:11 He places the humble on high and encourages the grieving towards health.

 

Job 5:12 He dispels the thoughts of the spiteful, lest their hands be able to complete what they had begun.

 

Job 5:13 He catches the wise in their cleverness and dissipates the counsel of the perverse.

 

Job 5:14 They will encounter darkness in the daytime, and they will grope at midday just as in the night.

 

Job 5:15 Thereafter, he will act to save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

 

Job 5:16 And there will be hope for those in need, for iniquity will diminish its speech.

 

Job 5:17 Blessed is the man whom God corrects; therefore, do not reject the chastisement of the Lord.

 

Job 5:18 For he wounds and he cures; he strikes and his hands will heal.

 

Job 5:19 He will deliver you into six tribulations, and in the seventh, evil will not touch you.

 

Job 5:20 During famine, he will rescue you from death, and during war, from the hand of the sword.

 

Job 5:21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and you will not fear calamity when it arrives.

 

Job 5:22 In desolation and in famine, you will laugh, and you will not dread the beasts of the earth.

 

Job 5:23 For you are in harmony with the stones of the land, and the beasts of the earth will make peace with you.

 

Job 5:24 And you will know that your home has peace, and, concerning your appearance, you will not sin.

 

Job 5:25 Likewise, you will know that your offspring will be manifold and your progeny will be like the grass of the earth.

 

Job 5:26 You will enter the grave with abundance, just as a crop of wheat is gathered in its time.

 

Job 5:27 Behold, this is just as we have found it, which you have heard; walk it through your mind.