Job 5 - Meaning, Themes & Application

" Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? "

" For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. "

" I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. "

" His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver "

" Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. "

" Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; "

" Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. "

" I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: "

" Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: "

" Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: "

" To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. "

" He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. "

" He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. "

" They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. "

" But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. "

" So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. "

" Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: "

" For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. "

" He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch "

" In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. "

" Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. "

" At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. "

" For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace "

" And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. "

" Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. "

" Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. "

" Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know "