Job 5

1Call out now—is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

2For resentment kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

3I myself have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his home.

4His children are far from safety; they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to rescue them.

5The hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from among the thorns, and the thirsty pant after their wealth.

6For trouble does not come up from the dust, and hardship does not sprout from the ground;

7yet human beings are born for trouble, as sparks fly upward.

8But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would commit my cause.

9He does great things beyond searching out, wonders that cannot be counted.

10He gives rain on the earth and sends water on the fields.

11He sets the lowly on high, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

12He frustrates the plans of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

13He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the twisted are swept away.

14They meet darkness in the daytime, and at noon they grope as if it were night.

15He saves the needy from the sword of their mouths and from the hand of the powerful.

16So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

17Look, blessed is the one whom God corrects; so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

18For he wounds, but he binds up; he strikes, but his hands heal.

19From six troubles he will rescue you; in seven, no harm will touch you.

20In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

21You will be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and you will not fear destruction when it comes.

22You will laugh at destruction and famine, and you will not fear the wild animals of the earth.

23For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

24You will know that your tent is secure; you will look over your homestead and find nothing missing.

25You will know that your descendants will be many, and your offspring like the grass of the earth.

26You will come to the grave in ripe old age, like a stack of grain gathered in its season.

27Look, we have searched this out, and it is true. Hear it, and know it for yourself.”