Job 5

¹Call therefore if there be that will answer thee, and turn to some of the Saints.

²Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

³I have seen a fool with firm root, and I cursed his beauty by and by.

⁴His children shall be made far from salvation, and shall be destroyed in the gate, and there shall be none to deliver.

⁵Whose harvest the hungry shall eat, and the armed shall take him by violence, and the thirsty shall drink his riches.

⁶Nothing in the earth is done without a cause, and out of the ground sorrow shall not rise.

⁷Man is born to labour, and the bird to flight.

⁸For the which thing I will beseech our Lord, and toward God I will set my speech:

⁹Who doeth great and unsearchable and marvelous things without number:

¹⁰Who giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and watereth all things with waters:

¹¹Who setteth the humble on high, and them that are in heaviness he comforteth with health:

¹²Who dissipateth the cogitations of the malignant, that their hands cannot accomplish that which they began:

¹³Who apprehendeth the wise in their subtilty, and dissipateth the counsel of the wicked:

¹⁴By day they shall incur darkness, and as it were in the night, so shall they grope at noon days.

¹⁵Moreover he shall save the needy from the sword of their mouth, and the poor from the hand of the violent.

¹⁶And to the needy there shall be hope, but iniquity shall draw together her mouth.

¹⁷Blessed is the man that is corrected of God: refuse not therefore the chastising of our Lord:

¹⁸Because he woundeth, and cureth: striketh, & his hands shall heal.

¹⁹In six tribulations he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh evil shall not touch thee.

²⁰In famine he shall deliver thee from death, and in battle, from the hand of the sword.

²¹From the scourge of the tongue thou shalt be hid; and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh.

²²In waste and famine thou shalt laugh, & the beasts of the earth thou shalt not fear.

²³But with the stones of the lands thy covenant, and the beasts of the earth shall be peaceable to thee.

²⁴And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle hath peace, and visiting thy beauty, thou shalt not sin.

²⁵Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be manifold, and thy progeny as the grass of the earth.

²⁶Thou shalt enter into the grave in aboundance, as a heap of wheat is carried in his time.

²⁷Behold, this is even so, as we have searched out: which thou having heard revolve in thy mind.