| 5 | Job | ||
| 1 | "Call now; is there any one who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn? | ||
| 2 | Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple. | ||
| 3 | I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling. | ||
| 4 | His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them. | ||
| 5 | His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth. | ||
| 6 | For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground; | ||
| 7 | but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. | ||
| 8 | "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause; | ||
| 9 | who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number: | ||
| 10 | he gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields; | ||
| 11 | he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety. | ||
| 12 | He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success. | ||
| 13 | He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end. | ||
| 14 | They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night. | ||
| 15 | But he saves the fatherless from their mouth, the needy from the hand of the mighty. | ||
| 16 | So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth. | ||
| 17 | "Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty. | ||
| 18 | For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal. | ||
| 19 | He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven there shall no evil touch you. | ||
| 20 | In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword. | ||
| 21 | You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. | ||
| 22 | At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth. | ||
| 23 | For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you. | ||
| 24 | You shall know that your tent is safe, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing. | ||
| 25 | You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth. | ||
| 26 | You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season. | ||
| 27 | Lo, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your own good." | ||
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