Thematic Bible
Job 5:1 (show verse)
Call, I pray thee - is there one to answer thee? Or, to which of the holy ones, wilt thou turn?
Job 5:2 (show verse)
For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.
Job 5:3 (show verse)
I, have seen the foolish taking root, and then hath his home decayed, in a moment:
Job 5:4 (show verse)
His children are far removed from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver:
Job 5:5 (show verse)
Whose harvest, the hungry, eateth up, and, even out of thorn hedges, he taketh it, and the snare gapeth for their substance.
Job 5:6 (show verse)
For sorrow, cometh not forth out of the dust, - nor, out of the ground, sprouteth trouble.
Job 5:7 (show verse)
Though, man, to trouble, were born, as, sparks, on high, do soar,
Job 5:8 (show verse)
Yet indeed, I, would seek unto El, and, unto Elohim, would I set forth any cause: -
Job 5:9 (show verse)
Who doeth great things, beyond all search, - Wondrous things, till they cannot be recounted;
Job 5:10 (show verse)
Who giveth rain, upon the face of the earth, and sendeth forth waters, over the face of the open fields;
Job 5:11 (show verse)
Setting the lowly on high, and, mourners, are uplifted to safety;
Job 5:12 (show verse)
Who doth frustrate the schemes of the crafty, that their hands cannot achieve abiding success;
Job 5:13 (show verse)
Who captureth the wise in their own craftiness, yea the headlong counsel of the crooked:
Job 5:14 (show verse)
By day, they encounter darkness, and, as though it were night, they grope at high noon.
Job 5:15 (show verse)
But he saveth from the sword, out of their mouth, and, out of the hand of the strong, the needy.
Job 5:16 (show verse)
Thus to the poor hath come hope, and, perversity, hath shut her mouth.
Job 5:17 (show verse)
Lo! how happy is the man whom God correcteth! Therefore, the chastening of the Almighty, do not thou refuse;
Job 5:18 (show verse)
For, he, woundeth that he may bind up, He smiteth through, that, his own hands, may heal.
Job 5:19 (show verse)
In six troubles, he will rescue thee, and, in seven, there shall smite thee no misfortune:
Job 5:20 (show verse)
In famine, he will ransom thee from death, and in battle from the power of the sword;
Job 5:21 (show verse)
During the scourge of the tongue, shalt thou be hid, neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh;
Job 5:22 (show verse)
At destruction and at hunger, shalt thou laugh, and, of the wild beast of the earth, be not thou afraid;
Job 5:23 (show verse)
For, with the stones of the field, shall be thy covenant, and, the wild beast of the field, hath been made thy friend;
Job 5:24 (show verse)
And thou shalt know that, at peace, is thy tent, and shalt visit thy fold, and miss nothing;
Job 5:25 (show verse)
And thou shalt know, that numerous is thy seed, and, thine offspring, like the young shoots of the field.
Job 5:26 (show verse)
Thou shalt come, yet robust, to the grave, as a stack of sheaves mounteth up in its season.
Job 5:27 (show verse)
Lo! as for this, we have searched it out - so, it is, Hear it, and know, thou, for thyself.