Job 5

About Job Job wrestles with why the righteous suffer, through Job's losses, his friends' arguments and God's answer.

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?SelectedJob 5:1Ask

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.SelectedJob 5:2Ask

I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.SelectedJob 5:3Ask

His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.SelectedJob 5:4Ask

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.SelectedJob 5:5Ask

Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;SelectedJob 5:6Ask

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.SelectedJob 5:7Ask

I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:SelectedJob 5:8Ask

Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:SelectedJob 5:9Ask

Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:SelectedJob 5:10Ask

To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.SelectedJob 5:11Ask

He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.SelectedJob 5:12Ask

He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.SelectedJob 5:13Ask

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.SelectedJob 5:14Ask

But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.SelectedJob 5:15Ask

So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.SelectedJob 5:16Ask

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:SelectedJob 5:17Ask

For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.SelectedJob 5:18Ask

He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.SelectedJob 5:19Ask

In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.SelectedJob 5:20Ask

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.SelectedJob 5:21Ask

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.SelectedJob 5:22Ask

For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.SelectedJob 5:23Ask

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.SelectedJob 5:24Ask

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.SelectedJob 5:25Ask

Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.SelectedJob 5:26Ask

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.SelectedJob 5:27Ask

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