Job 5
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Call now; is there any that will answer you? And to which of the holy ones will you
turn?
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For vexation kills the foolish man, And jealousy slays the silly one.
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I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there
any to deliver them:
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Whose harvest the hungry eats up, And takes it even out of the thorns; And the snare
gapes for their substance.
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For affliction comes not forth from the dust, Neither does trouble spring out of the
ground;
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But man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
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But as for me, I would seek to God, And to God would I commit my cause;
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Who does great things and unsearchable, Marvelous things without number:
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Who gives rain upon the earth, And sends waters upon the fields;
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So that he sets up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to
safety.
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He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their
enterprise.
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He takes the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried
headlong.
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They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.
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But he saves from the sword of their mouth, Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
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So the poor has hope, And iniquity stops her mouth.
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Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: Therefore despise not you the chastening
of the Almighty.
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For he makes sore, and binds up; He wounds, and his hands make whole.
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He will deliver you in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch you.
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In famine he will redeem you from death; And in war from the power of the sword.
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You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shall you be afraid of destruction
when it comes.
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At destruction and dearth you shall laugh; Neither shall you be afraid of the beasts
of the earth.
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For you shall be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field
shall be at peace with you.
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And you shall know that your tent is in peace; And you shall visit your fold, and
shall miss nothing.
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You shall know also that your seed shall be great, And your offspring as the grass
of the earth.
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You shall come to your grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain comes in in its
season.
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Behold this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know you it for your good.