Job 5:8-16

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁸ I would certainly seek God, and unto God would I commit my affairs;

⁹ who does great things that no one can understand, and marvels that have no explanation;

¹⁰ who gives rain upon the earth and sends waters abroad;

¹¹ who sets up the humble on high, that those who mourn may be lifted up with saving health.

¹² He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

¹³ He takes the wise in their own prudence, and the counsel of his adversaries is turned to folly.

¹⁴ They meet with darkness in the daytime and grope in the noonday as in the night.

¹⁵ But he saves the poor from the sword, from the mouth of the wicked, and from the hand of the violent.

¹⁶ Who is the hope of the poor, and iniquity closes her mouth.