The Book of Job

5:1 Call now; is there any that will answer thee?

 And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

 ^5:2For vexation killeth the foolish man,

 And jealousy slayeth the silly one.

 ^5:3I have seen the foolish taking root:

 But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

 ^5:4His children are far from safety,

 And they are crushed in the gate,

 Neither is there any to deliver them:

 ^5:5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,

 And taketh it even out of the thorns;

 And the snare gapeth for their substance.

 ^5:6For affliction cometh not forth from the dust,

 Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

 ^5:7But man is born unto trouble,

 As the sparks fly upward.

 ^5:8But as for me, I would seek unto God,

 And unto God would I commit my cause;

 ^5:9Who doeth great things and unsearchable,

 Marvellous things without number:

 ^5:10Who giveth rain upon the earth,

 And sendeth waters upon the fields;

 ^5:11So that he setteth up on high those that are low,

 And those that mourn are exalted to safety.

 ^5:12He frustrateth the devices of the crafty,

 So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

 ^5:13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness;

 And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

 ^5:14They meet with darkness in the day-time,

 And grope at noonday as in the night.

 ^5:15But he saveth from the sword of their mouth,

 Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

 ^5:16So the poor hath hope,

 And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
 
 

 ^5:17Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:

 Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

 ^5:18For he maketh sore, and bindeth up;

 He woundeth, and his hands make whole.

 ^5:19He will deliver thee in six troubles;

 Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

 ^5:20In famine he will redeem thee from death;

 And in war from the power of the sword.

 ^5:21Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue;

 Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

 ^5:22At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh;

 Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

 ^5:23For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field;

 And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

 ^5:24And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace;

 And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.

 ^5:25Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great,

 And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

 ^5:26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,

 Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.

 ^5:27Lo this, we have searched it, so it is;

 Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.