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title="Job 4">◄</a> Job 5 <a href="../job/6.htm" title="Job 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/job/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Call now; is there anyone who will answer you?</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">Surely vexation kills the fool,</span><br /><span class="indent">and jealousy slays the simple.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I have seen the fool taking root,</span><br /><span class="indent">but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">His children are far from safety;</span><br /><span class="indent">they are crushed in the gate,</span><br /><span class="indent">and there is no one to deliver them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The hungry eat his harvest,</span><br /><span class="indent">and he takes it even out of thorns,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">and the thirsty pant<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Aquila, Symmachus, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew could be read as and the snare pants">b</a></sup></span> after his<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew their">c</a></sup></span> wealth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For affliction does not come from the dust,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor does trouble sprout from the ground,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">but man is born to trouble</span><br /><span class="indent">as the sparks fly upward.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“As for me, I would seek God,</span><br /><span class="indent">and to God would I commit my cause,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">who does great things and unsearchable,</span><br /><span class="indent">marvelous things without number:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">he gives rain on the earth</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">he sets on high those who are lowly,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">He frustrates the devices of the crafty,</span><br /><span class="indent">so that their hands achieve no success.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He catches the wise in their own craftiness,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">They meet with darkness in the daytime</span><br /><span class="indent">and grope at noonday as in the night.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But he saves the needy from the sword of their mouth</span><br /><span class="indent">and from the hand of the mighty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">So the poor have hope,</span><br /><span class="indent">and injustice shuts her mouth.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Behold, blessed is the one whom God reproves;</span><br /><span class="indent">therefore despise not the discipline of the Almighty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For he wounds, but he binds up;</span><br /><span class="indent">he shatters, but his hands heal.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">He will deliver you from six troubles;</span><br /><span class="indent">in seven no evil<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or disaster">d</a></sup></span> shall touch you.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In famine he will redeem you from death,</span><br /><span class="indent">and in war from the power of the sword.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue,</span><br /><span class="indent">and shall not fear destruction when it comes.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">At destruction and famine you shall laugh,</span><br /><span class="indent">and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">You shall know that your tent is at peace,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You shall know also that your offspring shall be many,</span><br /><span class="indent">and your descendants as the grass of the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You shall come to your grave in ripe old age,</span><br /><span class="indent">like a sheaf gathered up in its season.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, this we have searched out; it is true.</span><br /><span class="indent">Hear, and know it for your good.”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew for yourself">e</a></sup></span></span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Aquila, Symmachus, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew could be read as <i><span class="catch-word">and the</span> snare pants</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">5</span> Hebrew <i>their</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>disaster</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">27</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">for</span> yourself</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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