Job 5 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ Call now; is there any that will answer thee?\par\tab And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

² For vexation killeth the foolish man,\par\tab And jealousy slayeth the silly one.

³ I have seen the foolish taking root:\par\tab But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

⁴ His children are far from safety,\par\tab And they are crushed in the gate,\par\tab Neither is there any to deliver them:

⁵ Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,\par\tab And taketh it even out of the thorns;\par\tab And the snare gapeth for their substance.

⁶ For affliction cometh not forth from the dust,\par\tab Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

⁷ But man is born unto trouble,\par\tab As the sparks fly upward.\par

⁸ But as for me, I would seek unto God,\par\tab And unto God would I commit my cause;

⁹ Who doeth great things and unsearchable,\par\tab Marvellous things without number:

¹⁰ Who giveth rain upon the earth,\par\tab And sendeth waters upon the fields;

¹¹ So that he setteth up on high those that are low,\par\tab And those that mourn are exalted to safety.

¹² He frustrateth the devices of the crafty,\par\tab So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

¹³ He taketh the wise in their own craftiness;\par\tab And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the day-time,\par\tab And grope at noonday as in the night.

¹⁵ But he saveth from the sword of their mouth,\par\tab Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁶ So the poor hath hope,\par\tab And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.\par

¹⁷ Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth:\par\tab Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

¹⁸ For he maketh sore, and bindeth up;\par\tab He woundeth, and his hands make whole.

¹⁹ He will deliver thee in six troubles;\par\tab Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

²⁰ In famine he will redeem thee from death;\par\tab And in war from the power of the sword.

²¹ Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue;\par\tab Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

²² At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh;\par\tab Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

²³ For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field;\par\tab And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

²⁴ And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace;\par\tab And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.

²⁵ Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great,\par\tab And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

²⁶ Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age,\par\tab Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.

²⁷ Lo this, we have searched it, so it is;\par\tab Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.\par