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is there any that will answer thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For vexation killeth the foolish man, and jealousy slayeth the silly one.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapeth for their substance.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But as for me, I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvelous things without number:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So that he setteth up on high those that be low; and those which mourn are exalted to safety.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But he saveth from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For he maketh sore, and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He shall deliver thee in six troubles; yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In famine he shall redeem thee from death; and in war from the power of the sword.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><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; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; and thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">English Revised Version, 1885<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/scan/job/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></body></html>