Job 5

1 Therefore, Job, call thou, if there is any man that shall answer thee, and turn thou to some of the saints.⋮

2 Wrathfulness slayeth a fond or foolish man, and envy slayeth a little child.⋮

3 I saw a fool with a steadfast root, and I cursed his fairness anon.⋮

4 His sons shall be made far from health, and they shall be defouled in the gate, and there shall be none that shall deliver them.⋮

5 Whose ripe corn an hungry man shall eat, and an armed man shall ravish him, and they, that thirst, shall drink his riches.⋮

6 Nothing is done in the earth with-out cause, and sorrow shall not go out of the earth, that is, adversity befalleth not to any man without cause.⋮

7 A man is born to labour, and a bird to flight.⋮

8 Wherefore I shall beseech the Lord, and I shall set or put my speech to my God.⋮

9 That maketh great things, and that may not be sought out, and wonder-ful things without number.⋮

10 The which God giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and moisteth all things with waters.⋮

11 Which setteth meek men on high, and raiseth with health them that mourn.⋮

12 Which destroyeth the thoughts of evil-willed men, that their hands may not fulfill those things that they have begun.⋮

13 Which taketh sly cautelous men in their own fellness, and he destroyeth the counsel of shrews or the depraved.⋮

14 By day they shall run into dark-nesses, and as in night, so they shall grope in midday.⋮

15 Certainly God shall make safe a needy man from the sword of their mouth, and a poor man from the hand of the violent, either raveners.⋮

16 And hope shall be to a needy man, but wickedness shall draw together his mouth.⋮

17 Blessed is the man, which is chastised of the Lord; therefore reprove thou not the blaming of the Lord.⋮

18 For he woundeth, and doeth medicine; he smiteth, and his hands shall make whole.⋮

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

20 In hunger he shall deliver thee from death, and in battle from the power of sword.⋮

21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of an evil tongue, and thou shalt not dread mis-ease, either wretchedness, when it cometh.⋮

22 In destroying made of enemies and in hunger thou shalt laugh, and thou shalt not dread the beasts of the earth.⋮

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

24 And thou shalt know, that thy tabernacle hath peace, and thou visiting thy fairness, that is, beholding thy prosperity, shalt not sin.⋮

25 And thou shalt know also, that thy seed shall be manyfold, and thy generation shall be as an herb of the earth.⋮

26 In abundance of years thou shalt go into the sepulchre, as an heap of wheat is borne in in his time.⋮

27 Lo! this thing is so, as we have sought; the which thing when thou hast heard, treat it in thy mind.⋮