KJ3 Literal Translation
Job 5
1 Failure to consider is harmful. 6 Jehovah is to be regarded in affliction. 17 The happy end of Jehovah's correction.
1¶ Call now. Is there anyone answering you? And to whom of the holy ones will you turn?
2For provocation kills the foolish one, and passion causes the one being simple to die.
3I have seen the foolish one taking root, but suddenly I cursed his abode.
4His sons are far from safety; yea, they are crushed in the gate; and there is not a deliverer.
5The hungry eat his harvest, and they take him to the thorns, and the snare crushes up their strength.
6¶ For affliction does not come forth from the dust, and trouble does not spring up out of the ground;
7for man is born to trouble, and the sons of the flame rise, flying upward.
8Truly, I would seek to God, and to God I would put my suit,
9who is doing great things, and there is no searching them; marvelous things to which is no numbering,
10the One giving rain on the face of the earth and sending water on the face of the outer places;
11to set the lowly on high; yea, the mourners become very high in safety;
12frustrating the plots of the crafty, and their hands do not perform the undertaking,
13taking the wise ones in their craftiness, and the counsel of the wily ones is hurried.
14They meet with darkness by day, and grope in the noonday as in the night.
15But He saves the needy one from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the strong one;
16and there is hope for the weak one; and injustice shuts her mouth.
17¶ Behold, blessed is the man whom God corrects; and despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
18For He wounds, and He binds up. He shatters, and His hands heal.
19He will deliver you in six troubles; yea, in seven evil shall not touch you.
20In famine He will redeem you from death; and in war from the hand of the sword.
21You shall be hidden from the whip of the tongue, and you shall not be afraid of violence when it comes.
22You shall laugh at violence and at famine; and you shall not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
23For you shall be in covenant with the stones of the field; and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.
24And you shall know that your tent is in peace; and you shall visit your abode and shall miss nothing;
25and you shall know that your seed will be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
26You shall come to the grave in full vigor, like a stack of grain comes up in its season.
27Behold this! We have searched it out; it is so. Hear it, and know it for yourself.
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