Job 5:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

To set up on high those that be low; That those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So that He sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn He lifts to safety.

American Standard Version (1901)

So that he setteth up on high those that are low, And those that mourn are exalted to safety.

Common English Bible

exalts the lowly, raises mourners to victory;

Catholic Public Domain Version

He places the humble on high and encourages the grieving towards health.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.

Job 5:11 Cross References

Job 22:29

When others are humiliated, you say it is pride, for he saves the humble.

Job 36:7

He does not withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne he sets them forever, and they are exalted.

Job 8:7

Though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.

Psalm 107:41

but he raises up the needy out of distress and makes their families like flocks.

Psalm 113:7

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap,

Psalm 91:14

Those who love me, I will deliver; I will protect those who know my name.

Ezekiel 17:24

All the trees of the field shall know that I am the Lord. I bring low the high tree; I make high the low tree; I dry up the green tree and make the dry tree flourish. I the Lord have spoken; I will accomplish it.

Luke 6:21

“Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

Deuteronomy 33:27

He subdues the ancient gods, shatters the forces of old; he drove out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy!’

James 1:9

Let the brother or sister of humble means boast in having a high position

1 Peter 1:3

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

1 Peter 5:10

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, support, strengthen, and establish you.