Job 5 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Job 5:1

Job 5:1“Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?
To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Job 5:2

Job 5:2Surely vexation kills the fool,
and jealousy slays the simple.

Job 5:3

Job 5:3I have seen the fool taking root,
but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

Job 5:4

Job 5:4His children are far from safety;
they are crushed in the gate,
and there is no one to deliver them.

Job 5:5

Job 5:5The hungry eat his harvest,
and he takes it even out of thorns,[fn]
and the thirsty pant[fn] after his[fn] wealth.

Job 5:6

Job 5:6For affliction does not come from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

Job 5:7

Job 5:7but man is born to trouble
as the sparks fly upward.

Job 5:8

Job 5:8“As for me, I would seek God,
and to God would I commit my cause,

Job 5:9

Job 5:9who does great things and unsearchable,
marvelous things without number:

Job 5:10

Job 5:10he gives rain on the earth
and sends waters on the fields;

Job 5:11

Job 5:11he sets on high those who are lowly,
and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

Job 5:12

Job 5:12He frustrates the devices of the crafty,
so that their hands achieve no success.

Job 5:13

Job 5:13He catches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Job 5:14

Job 5:14They meet with darkness in the daytime
and grope at noonday as in the night.

Job 5:15

Job 5:15But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth
and from the hand of the mighty.

Job 5:16

Job 5:16So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts her mouth.

Job 5:17

Job 5:17“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves;
therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.

Job 5:18

Job 5:18For he wounds, but he binds up;
he shatters, but his hands heal.

Job 5:19

Job 5:19He will deliver you from six troubles;
in seven no evil[fn] shall touch you.

Job 5:20

Job 5:20In famine he will redeem you from death,
and in war from the power of the sword.

Job 5:21

Job 5:21You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue,
and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

Job 5:22

Job 5:22At destruction and famine you shall laugh,
and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.

Job 5:23

Job 5:23For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,
and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

Job 5:24

Job 5:24You shall know that your tent is at peace,
and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.

Job 5:25

Job 5:25You shall know also that your offspring shall be many,
and your descendants as the grass of the earth.

Job 5:26

Job 5:26You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,
like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

Job 5:27

Job 5:27Behold, this we have searched out; it is true.
Hear, and know it for your good.”[fn]

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ESV Footnotes

(5:5)

The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

(5:5)

Aquila, Symmachus, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew could be read as and the snare pants

(5:5)

Hebrew their

(5:19)

Or disaster

(5:27)

Hebrew for yourself

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