Job 5

Revised Geneva Translation

5 “Call out now, if any will answer you. And to which of the saints will you turn?

² “Doubtless, anger kills the foolish and envy slays the idiot.

³ “I have seen the foolish well-rooted. And suddenly I cursed his habitation.

⁴ “His children shall be far from salvation. And they shall be destroyed in the gate. And no one shall deliver them.

⁵ “The hungry shall eat up his harvest. Indeed, they shall take it from among the thorns. And the thirsty shall drink up their wealth.

⁶ “For misery does not come forth from the dust. Nor does affliction spring out of the earth.

⁷ “But man is born to toil, as the sparks fly upward.

⁸ “But I would inquire of God, and turn my talk to God,

⁹ “Who does great things, and unsearchable, marvelous things without number.

¹⁰ “He gives rain upon the earth, and pours water upon the streets,

¹¹ “and sets those who are low up on high, so that the sorrowful may be exalted to salvation.

¹² “He scatters the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot accomplish that which they undertake.

¹³ “He takes the wise in their craftiness. And the counsel of the wicked is made foolish.

¹⁴ “They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noon as in the night.

¹⁵ “But He saves the poor from the sword, from their mouth and from the hand of the violent man,

¹⁶ “so that the poor has hope. But iniquity shall shut her mouth.

¹⁷ “Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects. Therefore, do not refuse the discipline of the Almighty.

¹⁸ “For He makes the wound and binds it up. He strikes, and His Hands make whole.

¹⁹ “He shall deliver you in six troubles. And in the seventh, misery shall not touch you.

²⁰ “In famine He shall deliver you from death, and in battle from the power of the sword.

²¹ “You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue. And you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes.

²² “You shall laugh at destruction and dearth, and shalt not be afraid of the beast of the Earth.

²³ “For the stones of the field shall be in league with you. And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

²⁴ “And you shall know that peace is in your tent. And you shall visit your habitation, and shall not sin.

²⁵ “You shall also perceive that your seed shall be great, and your posterity as the grass of the earth.

²⁶ “You shall go to your grave at a full age, as a stack of grain comes in due season.

²⁷ “Lo, thus have we examined it. And so it is. Hear this and know it for yourself.”