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Job 5

King James Version (1769 Blayney revision, with Apocrypha) · Berean Standard Bible

5:1
Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn (note: Or, look)?
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5:2
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy (note: Or, indignation) slayeth the silly one.
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5:3
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
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5:4
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
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5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
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5:6
Although affliction (note: Or, iniquity) cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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5:7
Yet man is born unto trouble (note: Or, labour), as the sparks fly upward (note: Heb. the sons of the burning coal, lift up to fly).
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5:8
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
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5:9
Which doeth great things and unsearchable (note: Heb. and there is no search); marvellous things without number (note: Heb. till there be no number):
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5:10
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields (note: Heb. outplaces):
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5:11
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
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5:12
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise (note: Or, cannot perform anything).
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5:13
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
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5:14
They meet (note: Or, run into) with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
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5:15
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
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5:16
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
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5:17
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
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5:18
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
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5:19
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
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5:20
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power (note: Heb. from the hands) of the sword.
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5:21
Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue (note: Or, when the tongue scourgeth): neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
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5:22
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
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5:23
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
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5:24
And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace (note: Or, peace is thy tabernacle); and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin (note: Or, err).
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5:25
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great (note: Or, much), and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
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5:26
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in (note: Heb. ascendeth) in his season.
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5:27
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good (note: Heb. for thyself).
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