Job 5:27

A Conservative Version

Lo this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

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The works of LORD are great, sought out by all those who have pleasure in it.

If thou are wise, thou are wise for thyself. And if thou scoff, thou alone shall bear it.

to keep the commandments of LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

I will show thee. Hear thou me, and that which I have seen I will declare,

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

Thou shall come to thy grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.

Then Job answered and said,

Lo, my eye has seen all [this]. My ear has heard and understood it.