Job 5:1-27 - Eliphaz's Response Continues

¹ Call now, if there is answering thee; and to whom from the holy ones wilt thou turn? ² For to the foolish, and anger will slay, and the simple will jealousy kill. ³ I saw the foolish one taking root, and suddenly I shall curse his habitation. ⁴ His sons shall be far from salvation, and they shall be crushed in the gate, and none delivering. ⁵ Which his harvest the hungry one will devour, and not from thorns shall they take it, and destruction gaped after their substance. ⁶ For toil will not come forth from the dust, and labor will not spring up from the earth; ⁷ For man shall be born to labor as the sons of the flame will lift up to fly.

⁸ But I will seek to God, and to God set my cause: ⁹ He did great things, and no searching;. and wonders even no number: ¹⁰ He gave rain upon the face of the earth, and sent waters upon the out places: ¹¹ To raise up the humbled to height; and those mourning were exalted to salvation. ¹² Bringing to nought the purposes of the crafty, and their hand shall not do an undertaking. ¹³ He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong. ¹⁴ The days they will meet darkness, and they will grope in the noon day as night ¹⁵ And he saved the needy from the sword, from their mouth and from the band of the strong one. ¹⁶ And hope will be to the poor one, and iniquity contracted her mouth. ¹⁷ Behold, happy the man God shall rebuke him: and thou shalt not reject the correction of the Almighty: ¹⁸ For he will cause pain, and he will bind up: he will smite and his hands will heal. ¹⁹ In six straits he will deliver thee, and in seven, evil shall not touch upon thee. ²⁰ In famine he redeemed thee from death, and in war from the hands of the sword. ²¹ In the scourge of the tongue thou shalt be hid, and thou shalt not be afraid of desolation when it shall come. ²² At desolation and at hunger thou shalt laugh, and from the beasts of the earth thou shalt not fear. ²³ For with the stones of the field they covenant, and the beast of the field was at peace with thee. ²⁴ And thou knewest that thy tent is peace, and thou reviewedst thy dwelling, and thou shalt not sin. ²⁵ And thou knewest the multitude of thy seed, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. ²⁶ Thou shalt come in old age to thy grave, as the ascending of a heap of sheaves in its time.