Job Job, chapter Book of Job, chapter 5
“Pray, call, is there any to answer you? And to which of the holy ones do you turn? For provocation slays the perverse, || And envy puts to death the simple, I have seen the perverse taking root, || And I mark his habitation straight away, Psa 37:35His sons are far from safety, || And they are bruised in the gate, || And there is no deliverer. Whose harvest the hungry eat, || And even take it from the thorns, || And the designing swallowed their wealth. For sorrow does not come forth from the dust, || Nor does misery spring up from the ground. For man is born to misery, || And the sparks go high to fly. Job 14:1Yet I inquire for God, || And for God I give my word, Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, until there is no numbering. Job 9:10; Psa 72:18Who is giving rain on the face of the land, || And is sending waters on the out-places. Job 36:27; Psa 147:8To set the low on a high place, || And the mourners have been high [in] safety. Making void thoughts of the cunning, || And their hands do not execute wisdom. Capturing the wise in their subtlety, || And the counsel of wrestling ones was hurried, 1Co 3:19By day they meet darkness, || And as night—they grope at noon. Deu 28:29He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth, || And from a strong hand, And there is hope for the poor, || And perverseness has shut her mouth. Behold, the blessedness of mortal man, || God reproves him: And do not despise the discipline of the Mighty, Pro 3:11; Jas 1:12; Heb 12:5; Rev 3:19For He pains, and He binds up, || He strikes, and His hands heal. Deu 32:39In six distresses He delivers you, || And in seven evil does not strike on you. Psa 91:10; Isa 43:2In famine He has redeemed you from death, || And in battle from the hands of the sword. Psa 33:19When the tongue scourges you are hid, || And you are not afraid of destruction, || When it comes. Psa 55:21; Pro 26:22At destruction and at hunger you mock, || And of the beast of the earth, || You are not afraid. (For with sons of the field [is] your covenant, || And the beast of the field || Has been at peace with you.) Psa 91:12; Isa 11:6And you have known that your tent [is] peace, || And inspected your habitation, and do not err, And have known that your seed [is] numerous, || And your offspring as the herb of the earth; You come in full age to the grave, || As the going up of a stalk in its season. Behold, this—we searched it out—it [is] right, listen; And you, know for yourself!”