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href="../job/4.htm" 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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Call now; is there any that will answer thee?</div><div class="po2">And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For anger killeth the foolish man,</div><div class="po2">And envy slayeth the silly one.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have seen the foolish taking root;</div><div class="po2">But suddenly I beheld his habitation cursed.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>His children are far from safety,</div><div class="po2">And are crushed in the gate, with none to deliver them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Whose harvest the hungry eateth up,</div><div class="po2">And taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For affliction cometh not forth from the dust,</div><div class="po2">Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But man is born unto trouble,</div><div class="po2">As the sparks fly upward.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But as for me, I would seek unto God,</div><div class="po2">And unto God would I commit my cause;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Who doeth great things and unsearchable,</div><div class="po2">Marvellous things without number;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Who giveth rain upon the earth,</div><div class="po2">And sendeth waters upon the fields;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So that He setteth up on high those that are low,</div><div class="po2">And those that mourn are exalted to safety.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He frustrateth the devices of the crafty,</div><div class="po2">So that their hands can perform nothing substantial.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He taketh the wise in their own craftiness;</div><div class="po2">And the counsel of the wily is carried headlong.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They meet with darkness in the day-time,</div><div class="po2">And grope at noonday as in the night.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But He saveth from the sword of their mouth,</div><div class="po2">Even the needy from the hand of the mighty.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So the poor hath hope,</div><div class="po2">And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth;</div><div class="po2">Therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For He maketh sore, and bindeth up;</div><div class="po2">He woundeth, and His hands make whole.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He will deliver thee in six troubles;</div><div class="po2">Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In famine He will redeem thee from death;</div><div class="po2">And in war from the power of the sword.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue;</div><div class="po2">Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh;</div><div class="po2">Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field;</div><div class="po2">And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace;</div><div class="po2">And thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt miss nothing.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great,</div><div class="po2">And thine offspring as the grass of the earth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Thou shalt come to thy grave in a ripe age,</div><div class="po2">Like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Lo this, we have searched it,</div><div class="po2">So it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span 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