Job 5 - ESV - BibliaVida

1 "Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of ¹the holy ones will you turn?

2 Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

3 ²I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.

4 His children are ³far from safety; they are crushed in ⁴the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.

5 The hungry eat his harvest, and he takes it even out of thorns,^a and the thirsty pant^b after his^c wealth.

6 For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

7 but man is ⁵born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

8 "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,

9 who ⁶does great things and ⁷unsearchable, ⁸marvelous things without number:

10 he gives ⁹rain on the earth and sends waters on the fields;

11 he ¹⁰sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.

12 He ¹¹frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.

13 He ¹²catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

14 They meet with darkness in the daytime and ¹³grope at noonday as in the night.

15 But he ¹⁴saves the needy from the sword of their mouth and from the hand of the mighty.

16 So the poor have hope, and ¹⁵injustice shuts her mouth.

17 "Behold, ¹⁶blessed is the one whom God reproves; therefore ¹⁷despise not the discipline of the ¹⁸Almighty.

18 For he wounds, but he ¹⁹binds up; he ²⁰shatters, but his hands heal.

19 He will ²¹deliver you from six troubles; in seven no ²²evil^d shall touch you.

20 ²³In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

21 You shall be ²⁴hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

22 At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear ²⁵the beasts of the earth.

23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.

24 You shall know that your ²⁶tent is at peace, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.

25 You shall know also that your ²⁷offspring shall be many, and your descendants as ²⁸the grass of the earth.

26 You shall come to your grave in ²⁹ripe old age, like a sheaf gathered up in its season.

27 Behold, this we have ³⁰searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good."^e

Job 5 ESV