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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/5.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Eliphaz: Job Is Chastened by God</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Job-5-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Call out now;</span></span><br /><span class="text Job-5-1">Is there anyone who will answer you?</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-1">And to which of the holy ones will you turn?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For wrath kills a foolish man,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-2">And envy slays a simple one.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have seen the foolish taking root,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-3">But suddenly I cursed his dwelling place.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>His sons are far from safety,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-4">They are crushed in the gate,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-4">And <i>there is</i> no deliverer.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Because the hungry eat up his harvest,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-5"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>Taking it even from the thorns,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-5"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>And a snare snatches their <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>substance.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For affliction does not come from the dust,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-6">Nor does trouble spring from the ground;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Yet man is born to <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>trouble,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-7">As the sparks fly upward.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“But as for me, I would seek God,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-8">And to God I would commit my cause—</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Who does great things, and unsearchable,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-9">Marvelous things without number.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He gives rain on the earth,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-10">And sends waters on the fields.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He sets on high those who are lowly,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-11">And those who mourn are lifted to safety.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He frustrates the devices of the crafty,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-12">So that their hands cannot carry out their plans.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He catches the wise in their own craftiness,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-13">And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They meet with darkness in the daytime,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-14">And grope at noontime as in the night.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But He saves the needy from the sword,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-15">From the mouth of the mighty,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-15">And from their hand.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So the poor have hope,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-16">And injustice shuts her mouth.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Behold, happy <i>is</i> the man whom God corrects;</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-17">Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For He bruises, but He binds up;</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-18">He wounds, but His hands make whole.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He shall deliver you in six troubles,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-19">Yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In famine He shall redeem you from death,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-20">And in war from the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>power of the sword.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-21">And you shall not be afraid of destruction when it comes.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You shall laugh at destruction and famine,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-22">And you shall not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For you shall have a covenant with the stones of the field,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-23">And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You shall know that your tent <i>is</i> in peace;</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-24">You shall visit your dwelling and find nothing amiss.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>You shall also know that your descendants <i>shall be</i> many,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-25">And your offspring like the grass of the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You shall come to the grave at a full age,</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-26">As a sheaf of grain ripens in its season.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Behold, this we have searched out;</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-27">It <i>is</i> true.</span><br /><span class="text Job-5-27">Hear it, and know for yourself.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-12957a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 5:5">Job 5:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX <i>They shall not be taken from evil men;</i> Vg. <i>And the armed man shall take him by violence</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12957b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 5:5">Job 5:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX <i>The might shall draw them off;</i> Vg. <i>And the thirsty shall drink up their riches</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12957c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 5:5">Job 5:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>wealth</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12959d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 5:7">Job 5:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>labor</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-12972e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 5:20">Job 5:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>hand</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div 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