Job 5 — TOJB

5Verse 1Call now, if there be any that will answer thee,
and to which of the Kedoshim (holy ones) wilt thou turn?
^{Verse 2}For ka'as (anger) killeth the foolish man,
and kinah (envy) slayeth the simple one.
^{Verse 3}I have seen the fool taking shoresh (root),
but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
^{Verse 4}His banim are far from yesha (safety, salvation),
and they are crushed in the sha'ar (gate, before the public),
neither is there any to deliver them.
^{Verse 5}Whose katzir (harvest) the hungry eateth up,
and taketh it even from among of the tzinnim (thorns),
and the intriguer pants after their wealth.
^{Verse 6}Although affliction springeth not forth of the aphar (dust),
neither doth amal (trouble, tzoros) sprout out of the adamah;
^{Verse 7}Yet adam is born unto amal (trouble, tzoros),
even as sparks fly upward.
^{Verse 8}I would seek El (G-d),
and before Elohim would I lay my cause;
^{Verse 9}Who doeth gedolot unsearchable,
marvellous things without mispar;
^{Verse 10}Who giveth matar upon eretz,
and sendeth mayim upon the fields;
^{Verse 11}To set up on high those that be the shefalim (the lowly ones);
that those which mourn may be exalted to safety,
^{Verse 12}Thwarting the machshevot of the arumim (crafty ones),
so that their hands cannot accomplish tushiyyah (success).
^{Verse 13}He taketh the chachamim in their own arum (craftiness),
and the etzah of the wily is swiftly swept away.
^{Verse 14}They meet with choshech in the daytime,
and grope in the noonday as in the lailah,
^{Verse 15}But He saveth the needy from the cherev of their mouth,
and from the yad chazak.
^{Verse 16}So the poor hath tikveh,
and olatah (perversity, wickedness) stoppeth her mouth.^{Verse 17}Hinei, ashrei is the enosh whom Eloah correcteth;
therefore despise not thou the musar (chastening) of Shaddai;
^{Verse 18}For He woundeth, and bindeth up;
He injureth, and His yadayim (hands) heal.
^{Verse 19}He shall deliver thee in shesh tzoros;
yea, in shivah there shall no rah touch thee.
^{Verse 20}In ra'av (famine) He shall redeem thee from mavet;
and in milchamah from the power of the cherev.
^{Verse 21}Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the leshon,
neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
^{Verse 22}At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh;
neither shalt thou be afraid of the chayyat ha'aretz.
^{Verse 23}For thou shalt be in league with the avanim of the sadeh,
and the chayyat sadeh shall be hashelemah (at peace) with thee.
^{Verse 24}And thou shalt know that shalom shall be thy ohel;
and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and find nothing wanting.
^{Verse 25}Thou shalt know also that thy zera shall be rav,
and thine offspring as the esev ha'aretz.
^{Verse 26}Thou shalt come to thy kever in a ripe age,
like a shock of grain cometh in its season.
^{Verse 27}Hinei zot, this we have searched out, so it is;
hear it, and apply thou it for thy good.