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and to whom from the holy ones wilt thou turn?<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For to the foolish, and anger will slay, and the simple will jealousy kill.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I saw the foolish one taking root, and suddenly I shall curse his habitation.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>His sons shall be far from salvation, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and none delivering.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Which his harvest the hungry one will devour, and not from thorns shall they take it, and destruction gaped after their substance.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For toil will not come forth from the dust, and labor will not spring up from the earth;<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For man shall be born to labor as the sons of the flame will lift up to fly.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But I will seek to God, and to God set my cause:<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He did great things, and no searching; and wonders even no number:<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He gave rain upon the face of the earth, and sent waters upon the out places:<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>To raise up the humbled to height; and those mourning were exalted to salvation.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Bringing to nought the purposes of the crafty, and their hand shall not do an undertaking.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The days they will meet darkness, and they will grope in the noon day as night.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And he saved the needy from the sword, from their mouth and from the band of the strong one.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And hope will be to the poor one, and iniquity contracted her mouth.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty:<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For he will cause pain, and he will bind up: he will smite and his hands will heal.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>In six straits he will deliver thee, and in seven, evil shall not touch upon thee.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In famine he redeemed thee from death, and in war from the hands of the sword.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>In the scourge of the tongue thou shalt be hid, and thou shalt not be afraid of desolation when it shall come.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>At desolation and at hunger thou shalt laugh, and from the beasts of the earth thou shalt not fear.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For with the stones of the field they covenant, and the beast of the field was at peace with thee.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And thou knewest that thy tent is peace, and thou reviewedst thy dwelling, and thou shalt not sin.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And thou knewest the multitude of thy seed, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Thou shalt come in old age to thy grave, as the ascending of a heap of sheaves in its time.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Behold this, we searched it out, so it is: hear it, and know thou for thyself.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; 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