Job 5 — ULB

5Verse 1Call out now; is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?
^{Verse 2}For anger kills the foolish man;
jealousy kills the silly one.
^{Verse 3}I have seen a foolish person taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his home.
^{Verse 4}His children are far from safety;
they are crushed in the city gate.
There is no one to rescue them.
^{Verse 5}The hungry eat up their harvest;
they even take it from among the thorns.
The thirsty pant for their wealth.
^{Verse 6}For difficulties do not come out from the soil;
neither does trouble sprout from the ground.
^{Verse 7}Instead, mankind is born for trouble,
just as sparks fly upward.
^{Verse 8}But as for me, I would turn to God himself;
to him I would commit my cause—
^{Verse 9}he who does great and unsearchable things,
marvelous things without number.
^{Verse 10}He gives rain on the earth,
and sends water on the fields.
^{Verse 11}He does this in order to set up on high those who are low;
to raise to safety those who mourn.
^{Verse 12}He breaks the plans of the crafty people,
so that their hands cannot achieve success.
^{Verse 13}He traps wise people in their own crafty actions;
the plans of twisted people are hurried to their end.
^{Verse 14}They encounter darkness in the daytime,
and grope at noonday as if it were night.
^{Verse 15}But he saves the poor person from the sword in their mouths
and the needy person from the hand of mighty people.
^{Verse 16}So the poor person has hope,
and injustice shuts her own mouth.
^{Verse 17}See, blessed is the man whom God corrects;
therefore, do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
^{Verse 18}For he wounds and then binds up;
he wounds and then his hands heal.
^{Verse 19}He will rescue you out of six troubles;
indeed, in seven troubles, no evil will touch you.
^{Verse 20}In famine he will ransom you from death,
and in war from the hands of the sword.
^{Verse 21}You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue;
and you will not be afraid of destruction when it comes.
^{Verse 22}You will laugh at destruction and famine,
and you will not be afraid of beasts of the earth.
^{Verse 23}For you will have a covenant with the stones in your field,
and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.
^{Verse 24}You will know that your tent is in safety;
you will visit your sheepfold and you will not miss anything.
^{Verse 25}You will also know that your seed will be great,
that your offspring will be like the grass on the ground.
^{Verse 26}You will come to your grave at a full age,
like a stack of grain bundles that goes up at its time.
^{Verse 27}See, we have examined this matter; it is like this;
listen to it, and know it for yourself.”