Job 5:1 (BSB)
“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Job 5:2 (BSB)
For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Job 5:3 (BSB)
I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

Job 5:4 (BSB)
His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

Job 5:5 (BSB)
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Job 5:6 (BSB)
For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Job 5:7 (BSB)
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Job 5:8 (BSB)
However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

Job 5:9 (BSB)
the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

Job 5:10 (BSB)
He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

Job 5:11 (BSB)
He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

Job 5:12 (BSB)
He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

Job 5:13 (BSB)
He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

Job 5:14 (BSB)
They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

Job 5:15 (BSB)
He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

Job 5:16 (BSB)
So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

Job 5:17 (BSB)
Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

Job 5:18 (BSB)
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

Job 5:19 (BSB)
He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

Job 5:20 (BSB)
In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

Job 5:21 (BSB)
You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

Job 5:22 (BSB)
You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

Job 5:23 (BSB)
For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

Job 5:24 (BSB)
You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.

Job 5:25 (BSB)
You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.

Job 5:26 (BSB)
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

Job 5:27 (BSB)
Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”
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