Job 5

^{Job 5:1} “Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

^{Job 5:2} For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

^{Job 5:3} I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

^{Job 5:4} His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

^{Job 5:5} The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

^{Job 5:6} For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

^{Job 5:7} Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

^{Job 5:8} However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

^{Job 5:9} the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

^{Job 5:10} He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

^{Job 5:11} He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

^{Job 5:12} He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

^{Job 5:13} He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

^{Job 5:14} They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

^{Job 5:15} He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

^{Job 5:16} So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

^{Job 5:17} Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

^{Job 5:18} For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

^{Job 5:19} He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

^{Job 5:20} In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

^{Job 5:21} You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

^{Job 5:22} You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

^{Job 5:23} For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

^{Job 5:24} You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.

^{Job 5:25} You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.

^{Job 5:26} You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

^{Job 5:27} Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”