Job 5 · איוב

Call now, is there any that will answer thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

For anger kills the foolish man, and envy slays the simpleton.

I have seen the foolish taking root: and suddenly I cursed his dwelling, saying,

Let his children be far from safety, and let them be crushed in the gate, with none to rescue them.

Let the hungry eat up his harvest, and take it to the thorn hedges, and let the thirsty swallow up their substance.

For affliction does not come out of the dust, nor does trouble spring out of the ground;

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

But I would seek to God, and to God I would commit my cause:

who does great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

who gives rain upon the earth, and sends water upon the fields:

to set up on high those who are low; that those who mourn may be exalted to safety.

He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their policy.

He catches the wise in their own craftiness; and the rash counsel of the crooked.

They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

But he saves from the sword, from the enemy’s mouth; and the poor from the hand of the mighty.

So the poor has hope, and iniquity stops her mouth.

Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects: therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty:

for he makes sore, and binds up: he wounds, but his hands make whole.

He will deliver thee in six troubles: and in seven no evil shall touch thee.

In famine he will redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: nor shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.

At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: nor shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the wild beasts shall be at peace with thee.

And thou shalt know that thy tent is at peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thy offspring as the grass of the earth.

Thou shalt come to thy grave with a rich harvest, like a full sheaf of corn which comes up in its season.

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know it, for thy good.