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Job 5

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

5:1

But call, if any one will hearken to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.

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5:2

For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.

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5:3

And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.

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5:4

Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.

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5:5

For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.

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5:6

For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:

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5:7

yet man is born to labour, and [even so] the vulture's young seek the high places.

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5:8

Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;

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5:9

who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:

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5:10

who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:

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5:11

who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:

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5:12

frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:

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5:13

who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty.

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5:14

In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:

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5:15

and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.

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5:16

And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.

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5:17

But blessed [is] the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

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5:18

For he causes [a man] to be in pain, and restores [him] again: he smites, and his hands heal.

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5:19

Six times he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.

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5:20

In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.

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5:21

He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.

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5:22

Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.

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5:23

For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

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5:24

Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.

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5:25

And thou shalt know that thy seed [shall be] abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.

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5:26

And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, or as a heap of the corn-flour collected in proper time.

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5:27

Behold, we have thus sought out these matters; these are what we have heard: but do thou reflect with thyself, if thou hast done anything [wrong].

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