Job 5 (NET)

Job 5:1¹“Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:2²For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:3³I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:4⁴His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:5⁵The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty pant for their wealth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:6⁶For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:7⁷but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:8⁸“But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:9⁹He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:10¹⁰he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:11¹¹he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:12¹²He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:13¹³He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:14¹⁴They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:15¹⁵So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:16¹⁶Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:17¹⁷“Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:18¹⁸For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:19¹⁹He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:20²⁰In time of famine he will redeem you from death, and in time of war from the power of the sword.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:21²¹You will be protected from malicious gossip, and will not be afraid of the destruction when it comes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:22²²You will laugh at destruction and famine and need not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:23²³For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:24²⁴And you will know that your home will be secure, and when you inspect your domains, you will not be missing anything.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:25²⁵You will also know that your children will be numerous, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:26²⁶You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 5:27²⁷Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions