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class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and jealousy slays the simple.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>I have seen fools taking root,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but suddenly I cursed their dwelling.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Their children are far from safety,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they are crushed in the gate,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and there is no one to deliver them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>The hungry eat their harvest,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and they take it even out of the thorns;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15027a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the thirsty<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15027b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> pant after their wealth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>For misery does not come from the earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">nor does trouble sprout from the ground;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>but human beings are born to trouble</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">just as sparks<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15029c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> fly upward.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>“As for me, I would seek God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and to God I would commit my cause.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>He does great things and unsearchable,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">marvelous things without number.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>He gives rain on the earth</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and sends waters on the fields;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>he sets on high those who are lowly,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and those who mourn are lifted to safety.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>He frustrates the devices of the crafty,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that their hands achieve no success.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>He takes the wise in their own craftiness;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>They meet with darkness in the daytime,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and grope at noonday as in the night.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from the hand of the mighty.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>So the poor have hope,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and injustice shuts its mouth.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>“How happy is the one whom God reproves;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">therefore do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15039d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>For he wounds, but he binds up;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">he strikes, but his hands heal.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>He will deliver you from six troubles;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in seven no harm shall touch you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>In famine he will redeem you from death,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and in war from the power of the sword.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and shall not fear destruction when it comes.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>At destruction and famine you shall laugh,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>You shall know that your tent is safe,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>You shall know that your descendants will be many,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and your offspring like the grass of the earth.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>See, we have searched this out; it is true.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Hear, and know it for yourself.”</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 5:5">Job 5:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 5:5">Job 5:5</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Aquila Symmachus Syr Vg: Heb <i>snare</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 5:7">Job 5:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>birds</i>; Heb <i>sons of Resheph</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 5:17">Job 5:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Traditional rendering of Heb <i>Shaddai</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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