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Job 5

¹Call out, Job. See if anyone answers. Is there any angel to whom you can turn?

²To worry yourself to death with resentment would be a foolish, senseless thing to do.

³I have seen fools who looked secure, but I called down a sudden curse on their homes.

⁴Their children can never find safety; no one stands up to defend them in court.

⁵Hungry people will eat the fool's crops--- even the grain growing among thorns --- and thirsty people will envy his wealth.

⁶Evil does not grow in the soil, nor does trouble grow out of the ground.

⁷No indeed! We bring trouble on ourselves, as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.

⁸If I were you, I would turn to God and present my case to him.

⁹We cannot understand the great things he does, and to his miracles there is no end.

¹⁰He sends rain on the land and he waters the fields.

¹¹Yes, it is God who raises the humble and gives joy to all who mourn.

¹²He upsets the plans of cunning people, and traps the wise in their own schemes, so that nothing they do succeeds;

¹⁴even at noon they grope in darkness.

¹⁵But God saves the poor from death; he saves the needy from oppression.

¹⁶He gives hope to the poor and silences the wicked.

¹⁷Happy is the person whom God corrects! Do not resent it when he rebukes you.

¹⁸God bandages the wounds he makes; his hand hurts you, and his hand heals.

¹⁹Time after time he will save you from harm;

²⁰when famine comes, he will keep you alive, and in war protect you from death.

²¹God will rescue you from slander; he will save you when destruction comes.

²²You will laugh at violence and hunger and not be afraid of wild animals.

²³The fields you plow will be free of rocks; wild animals will never attack you.

²⁴Then you will live at peace in your tent; when you look at your sheep, you will find them safe.

²⁵You will have as many children as there are blades of grass in a pasture.

²⁶Like wheat that ripens till harvest time, you will live to a ripe old age.

²⁷Job, we have learned this by long study. It is true, so now accept it.