Job 5 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

God Is Just

Job 5:1

Job 5:1Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?

Job 5:2

Job 5:2For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

Job 5:3

Job 5:3I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

Job 5:4

Job 5:4Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

Job 5:5

Job 5:5Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.

Job 5:6

Job 5:6For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.

Job 5:7

Job 5:7For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

Job 5:8

Job 5:8Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,

Job 5:9

Job 5:9Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.

Job 5:10

Job 5:10Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.

Job 5:11

Job 5:11To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety.

Job 5:12

Job 5:12Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.

Job 5:13

Job 5:13Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,

Job 5:14

Job 5:14By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon.

Job 5:15

Job 5:15And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,

Job 5:16

Job 5:16And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.

Job 5:17

Job 5:17Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,

Job 5:18

Job 5:18For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.

Job 5:19

Job 5:19In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.

Job 5:20

Job 5:20In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.

Job 5:21

Job 5:21When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.

Job 5:22

Job 5:22At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.

Job 5:23

Job 5:23(For with sons of the field is thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)

Job 5:24

Job 5:24And thou hast known that thy tent is peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,

Job 5:25

Job 5:25And hast known that numerous is Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;

Job 5:26

Job 5:26Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

Job 5:27

Job 5:27Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it is right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!

The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job 5 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

God Is Just

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