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

¹ Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn? ² For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple, ³ I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway, ⁴ Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer. ⁵ Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth. ⁶ For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery. ⁷ For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

⁸ Yet I -- I inquire for God, And for God I give my word, ⁹ Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering. ¹⁰ Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places. ¹¹ To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high in safety. ¹² Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom. ¹³ Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened, ¹⁴ By day they meet darkness, And as night -- they grope at noon. ¹⁵ And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy, ¹⁶ And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth. ¹⁷ Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not, ¹⁸ For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal. ¹⁹ In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee. ²⁰ In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword. ²¹ When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh. ²² At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid. ²³ (For with sons of the field is thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.) ²⁴ And thou hast known that thy tent is peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not, ²⁵ And hast known that numerous is Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth; ²⁶ Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.

²⁷ Lo, this -- we searched it out -- it is right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!