1 Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn? YLT — Job 5:1
2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple, YLT — Job 5:2
3 I — I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway, YLT — Job 5:3
4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer. YLT — Job 5:4
5 Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth. YLT — Job 5:5
6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery. YLT — Job 5:6
7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly. YLT — Job 5:7
8 Yet I — I inquire for God, And for God I give my word, YLT — Job 5:8
9 Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering. YLT — Job 5:9
10 Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places. YLT — Job 5:10
11 To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety. YLT — Job 5:11
12 Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. YLT — Job 5:12
13 Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened, YLT — Job 5:13
14 By day they meet darkness, And as night — they grope at noon. YLT — Job 5:14
15 And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy, YLT — Job 5:15
16 And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth. YLT — Job 5:16
17 Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not, YLT — Job 5:17
18 For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal. YLT — Job 5:18
19 In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee. YLT — Job 5:19
20 In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword. YLT — Job 5:20
21 When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh. YLT — Job 5:21
22 At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid. YLT — Job 5:22
23 (For with sons of the field [is] thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.) YLT — Job 5:23
24 And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not, YLT — Job 5:24
25 And hast known that numerous [is] Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth; YLT — Job 5:25
26 Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season. YLT — Job 5:26
27 Lo, this — we searched it out — it [is] right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself! YLT — Job 5:27