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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 5 Coverdale Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/5.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/5-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Coverdale Bible</a> > Job 5</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Coverdale Bible of 1535</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/5-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those Who Seek Him<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Name me one els, yf thou canst fynde eny: yee loke aboute the, vpon eny of the holy men.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>As for the foolish man displeasure kylleth him, and anger slayeth ye ignoraunt.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>I haue sene my self, when the foolish was depe roted, that his bewty was sodely destroyed:<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>that his haruest was eaten vp off the hungrie: that the weapened man had spoyled it, and that the thurstie had droncke vp his riches. It is not the earth that bryngeth forth trauayle,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>nether commeth sorow out of ye groude:<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>but it is man, that is borne vnto mysery, like as the byrde for to fle.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But now will I speake off the LORDE, and talke of God:<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>which doth thinges, that are vnsearcheable, and marueles without nobre:<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Which geueth rayne vpo the earth, and poureth water vpon all thinges:<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>which setteth vp them of lowe degre, and sendeth prosperite, to those that are in heuynesse:<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Which destroyeth the deuyces of the sotyll, so that they are not able to perfourme the thynges that they take in hode:<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>which compaseth ye wyse in their owne craftynesse, and ouertroweth the councell of the wicked:<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>In so moch that they runne in to darcknesse by fayre daye, and grope aboute them at the noone daye, like as in the night.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And so he delyuereth the poore from the swearde, from their mouth, and from the hode of the cruell:<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>that the poore maye haue hope, & that the mouth of the oppressoure maye be stopped.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Beholde, happie is the man, whom God punysheth: therfore, despyse not thou ye chastenynge of the Allmighty.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For though he make a wounde, he geueth a medicyne agayne: though he smyte, his honde maketh whole agayne.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He delyuereth the out of sixe troubles, so that in the seuenth there can no harme touch the.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>In the myddest of honger he saueth ye from death: and when it is warre, from the power of the swearde.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>He shall kepe the from the perlous tonge so that when trouble commeth, thou shalt not nede to feare.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>In destruccion and derth thou shalt be mery, and shalt not be afrayed for the beastes of the earth:<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But the castels in the londe shal be confederate with the, & the beastes of the felde shall geue the peace:<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Yee thou shalt se, that thy dwellynge place shalbe in rest: thou shalt beholde thy substaunce, and be nomore punyshed for synne.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Thou shalt se also, that thy sede shall encreace, and that thy posterite shalbe as the grasse vpon the earth.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Thou shalt come to thy graue in a fayre age, like as ye corne sheeues are brought in to the barne in due season.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/5-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Lo, this is the matter, as we oure selues haue proued by experience. 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