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Job 5 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:1 - "Call now; is there any one who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:2 - Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:3 - I have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his dwelling.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:4 - His sons are far from safety, they are crushed in the gate, and there is no one to deliver them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:5 - His harvest the hungry eat, and he takes it even out of thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - For affliction does not come from the dust, nor does trouble sprout from the ground;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:8 - "As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:9 - who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:10 - he gives rain upon the earth and sends waters upon the fields;
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:11 - he sets on high those who are lowly, and those who mourn are lifted to safety.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:12 - He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:13 - He takes the wise in their own craftiness; and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:14 - They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:15 - But he saves the fatherless from their mouth, the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:16 - So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:17 - "Behold, happy is the man whom God reproves; therefore despise not the chastening of the Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:18 - For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:19 - He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven there shall no evil touch you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:20 - In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from the power of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:21 - You shall be hid from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:22 - At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the beasts of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:23 - For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:24 - You shall know that your tent is safe, and you shall inspect your fold and miss nothing.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:25 - You shall know also that your descendants shall be many, and your offspring as the grass of the earth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:26 - You shall come to your grave in ripe old age, as a shock of grain comes up to the threshing floor in its season.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:27 - Lo, this we have searched out; it is true. Hear, and know it for your good."
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

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