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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">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/job/5.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Eliphaz’s Response Continues</p><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“Cry for help, but will anyone answer you?</p><p class="line2">Which of the angels<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> will help you?</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Surely resentment destroys the fool,</p><p class="line2">and jealousy kills the simple.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I have seen that fools may be successful for the moment,</p><p class="line2">but then comes sudden disaster.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Their children are abandoned far from help;</p><p class="line2">they are crushed in court with no one to defend them.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The hungry devour their harvest,</p><p class="line2">even when it is guarded by brambles.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a></p><p class="line2">The thirsty pant after their wealth.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a></p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But evil does not spring from the soil,</p><p class="line2">and trouble does not sprout from the earth.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>People are born for trouble</p><p class="line2">as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“If I were you, I would go to God</p><p class="line2">and present my case to him.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>He does great things too marvelous to understand.</p><p class="line2">He performs countless miracles.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>He gives rain for the earth</p><p class="line2">and water for the fields.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He gives prosperity to the poor</p><p class="line2">and protects those who suffer.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>He frustrates the plans of schemers</p><p class="line2">so the work of their hands will not succeed.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>He traps the wise in their own cleverness</p><p class="line2">so their cunning schemes are thwarted.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They find it is dark in the daytime,</p><p class="line2">and they grope at noon as if it were night.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He rescues the poor from the cutting words of the strong,</p><p class="line2">and rescues them from the clutches of the powerful.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And so at last the poor have hope,</p><p class="line2">and the snapping jaws of the wicked are shut.</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“But consider the joy of those corrected by God!</p><p class="line2">Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty when you sin.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For though he wounds, he also bandages.</p><p class="line2">He strikes, but his hands also heal.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>From six disasters he will rescue you;</p><p class="line2">even in the seventh, he will keep you from evil.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He will save you from death in time of famine,</p><p class="line2">from the power of the sword in time of war.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You will be safe from slander</p><p class="line2">and have no fear when destruction comes.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You will laugh at destruction and famine;</p><p class="line2">wild animals will not terrify you.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>You will be at peace with the stones of the field,</p><p class="line2">and its wild animals will be at peace with you.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You will know that your home is safe.</p><p class="line2">When you survey your possessions, nothing will be missing.</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>You will have many children;</p><p class="line2">your descendants will be as plentiful as grass!</p><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>You will go to the grave at a ripe old age,</p><p class="line2">like a sheaf of grain harvested at the proper time!</p><p class="b"/><p class="line1"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“We have studied life and found all this to be true.</p><p class="line2">Listen to my counsel, and apply it to yourself.”</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:1 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the holy ones.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:5a </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">5:5b 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