Job 5 — BST
5Verse 1But call, if any one will hearken to thee, or if thou shalt see any of the holy angels.Verse 2For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.Verse 3And I have seen foolish ones taking root: but suddenly their habitation was devoured.Verse 4Let their children be far from safety, and let them be crushed at the doors of vile men, and let there be no deliverer.Verse 5For what they have collected, the just shall eat; but they shall not be delivered out of calamities: let their strength be utterly exhausted.Verse 6For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:Verse 7yet man is born to labour, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.Verse 8Nevertheless I will beseech the Lord, and will call upon the Lord, the sovereign of all;Verse 9who does great things and untraceable, glorious things also, and marvellous, of which there is no number:Verse 10who gives rain upon the earth, sending water on the earth:Verse 11who exalts the lowly, and raises up them that are lost:Verse 12frustrating the counsels of the crafty, and their hands shall not perform the truth:Verse 13who takes the wise in their wisdom, and subverts the counsel of the crafty.Verse 14In the day darkness shall come upon them, and let them grope in the noon-day even as in the night:Verse 15and let them perish in war, and let the weak escape from the hand of the mighty.Verse 16And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.Verse 17But blessed is the man whom the Lord has reproved; and reject not thou the chastening of the Almighty.Verse 18For he causes a man to be in pain, and restores him again: he smites, and his hands heal.Verse 19Six times he shall deliver thee out of distresses: and in the seventh harm shall not touch thee.Verse 20In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in war he shall free thee from the power of the sword.Verse 21He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.Verse 22Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the lawless: and thou shalt not be afraid of wild beasts.Verse 23For the wild beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.Verse 24Then shalt thou know that thy house shall be at peace, and the provision for thy tabernacle shall not fail.Verse 25And thou shalt know that thy seed shall be abundant; and thy children shall be like the herbage of the field.Verse 26And 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.Verse 27Behold, 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.