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Job 5
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Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou aturn?
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and benvy slayeth the silly one.
I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Although caffliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:
Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the hfields:
To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform itheir enterprise.
He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
They jmeet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.
So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.
He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.
In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the kpower of the sword.
Thou shalt be hid lfrom the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
And thou shalt know that mthy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not nsin.
Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be ogreat, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn pcometh in in his season.
Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it qfor thy good.
Hebrew and Greek meanings: Strong's Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries (James Strong, 1894), digital text by Open Scriptures, CC-BY-SA.
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