Job 5

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