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Job 5 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:1 - Give now a cry for help; is there anyone who will give you an answer? and to which of the holy ones will you make your prayer?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:2 - For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:3 - I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly the curse came on his house.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:4 - Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:5 - Their produce is taken by him who has no food, and their grain goes to the poor, and he who is in need of water gets it from their spring.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - For evil does not come out of the dust, or trouble out of the earth;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:8 - But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:9 - Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:10 - Who gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields:

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:11 - Lifting up those who are low, and putting the sad in a safe place;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:12 - Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:13 - He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:15 - But he keeps safe from their sword those who have no father, and the poor from the power of the strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:16 - So the poor man has hope, and the mouth of the evil-doer is stopped.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:17 - Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:18 - For after his punishment he gives comfort, and after wounding, his hands make you well.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:19 - He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 - When there is need of food he will keep you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:21 - He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:22 - You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:23 - For you will be in agreement with the stones of the earth, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:24 - And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:25 - You will be certain that your seed will be great, and your offspring like the plants of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:26 - You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:27 - See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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