Job 5 (DRA)

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v1

Call now if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints.

v2

Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

v3

I have seen a fool with a strong root, and I cursed his beauty immediately.

v4

His children shall be far from safety, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver them.

v5

Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed man shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink up his riches.

v6

Nothing upon earth is done without a voice cause, and sorrow doth not spring out of the ground.

v7

Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.

v8

Wherefore I will pray to the Lord, and address my speech to God:

v9

Who doth great things and unsearchable and wonderful things without number:

v10

Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:

v11

Who setteth up the humble on high, and comforteth with health those that mourn.

v12

Who bringeth to nought the designs of the malignant, so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had begun:

v13

Who catcheth the wise in their craftiness, and disappointeth the counsel of the wicked:

v14

They shall meet with darkness in the day, and grope at noonday as in the night.

v15

But he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

v16

And to the needy there shall he hope, but iniquity shall draw in her mouth.

v17

Blessed is the man whom God correcteth: refuse not therefore the chastising of the lord:

v18

For he woundeth, and cureth: he striketh, and his hands shall heal.

v19

In six troubles he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh, evil shall not touch thee.

v20

In famine he shall deliver thee from death: and in battle, from the hand of the sword.

v21

Thou shalt he hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.

v22

In destruction and famine then shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

v23

But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at pence with thee.

v24

And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle is in peace, and visiting thy beauty thou shalt not sin.

v25

Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be multiplied, and thy offspring like the grass of the earth.

v26

Thou shalt enter into the grave in abundance, as a heap of wheat is brought in its season.

v27

Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard, consider it thoroughly in thy mind.

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