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Job 5
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1“Call now; is there any who will answer you?
- To which of the holy ones will you turn?
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2For resentment kills the foolish man,
- and jealousy kills the simple.
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3I have seen the foolish taking root,
- but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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4His children are far from safety.
- They are crushed in the gate.
- Neither is there any to deliver them,
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5whose harvest the hungry eats up,
- and take it even out of the thorns.
- The snare gapes for their substance.
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6For affliction doesn’t come forth from the dust,
- neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
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7but man is born to trouble,
- as the sparks fly upward.
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8“But as for me, I would seek God.
- I would commit my cause to God,
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9who does great things that can’t be fathomed,
- marvelous things without number;
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10who gives rain on the earth,
- and sends waters on the fields;
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11so that he sets up on high those who are low,
- those who mourn are exalted to safety.
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12He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
- So that their hands can’t perform their enterprise.
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13He takes the wise in their own craftiness;
- the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
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14They meet with darkness in the day time,
- and grope at noonday as in the night.
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15But he saves from the sword of their mouth,
- even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
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16So the poor has hope,
- and injustice shuts her mouth.
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17“Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects.
- Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
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18For he wounds, and binds up.
- He injures, and his hands make whole.
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19He will deliver you in six troubles;
- yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
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20In famine he will redeem you from death;
- in war, from the power of the sword.
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21You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,
- neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
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22At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
- neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
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23For you shall be allied with the stones of the field.
- The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
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24You shall know that your tent is in peace.
- You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
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25You shall know also that your seed shall be great,
- Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
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26You shall come to your grave in a full age,
- like a shock of grain comes in its season.
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27Look this, we have searched it, so it is.
- Hear it, and know it for your good.”
