Job 5:8-16

American Standard Version

⁸ But as for me, I would seek unto God,
And unto God would I commit my cause;
⁹ Who doeth great things and unsearchable,
Marvellous things without number:
¹⁰ Who giveth rain upon the earth,
And sendeth waters upon the fields;
¹¹ So that he setteth up on high those that are low,
And those that mourn are exalted to safety.
¹² He frustrateth the devices of the crafty,
So that their hands ^[a]cannot perform their enterprise.
¹³ He taketh the wise in their own craftiness;
And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the day-time,
And grope at noonday as in the night.
¹⁵ But he saveth from the sword ^[b]of their mouth,
Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
¹⁶ So the poor hath hope,
And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.