Thematic Bible

Job 5:1

Call out if you please. Will anyone answer you?
Which of the holy ones will you turn to?

Job 5:2

For anger kills a fool,
and jealousy slays the gullible.

Job 5:3

I have seen a fool taking root,
but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

Job 5:4

His children are far from safety.
They are crushed at the city gate,
with no one to rescue them.

Job 5:5

The hungry consume his harvest,
even taking it out of the thorns.
The thirsty pant for his children’s wealth.

Job 5:6

For distress does not grow out of the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

Job 5:7

But mankind is born for trouble
as surely as sparks fly upward.

Job 5:8

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God
and would present my case to Him.

Job 5:9

He does great and unsearchable things,
wonders without number.

Job 5:10

He gives rain to the earth
and sends water to the fields.

Job 5:11

He sets the lowly on high,
and mourners are lifted to safety.

Job 5:12

He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they achieve no success.

Job 5:13

He traps the wise in their craftiness
so that the plans of the deceptive
are quickly brought to an end.

Job 5:14

They encounter darkness by day,
and they grope at noon
as if it were night.

Job 5:15

He saves the needy from their sharp words
and from the clutches of the powerful.

Job 5:16

So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts its mouth.

Job 5:17

See how happy the man is God corrects;
so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.

Job 5:18

For He crushes but also binds up;
He strikes, but His hands also heal.

Job 5:19

He will rescue you from six calamities;
no harm will touch you in seven.

Job 5:20

In famine He will redeem you from death,
and in battle, from the power of the sword.

Job 5:21

You will be safe from slander
and not fear destruction when it comes.

Job 5:22

You will laugh at destruction and hunger
and not fear the animals of the earth.

Job 5:23

For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field,
and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

Job 5:24

You will know that your tent is secure,
and nothing will be missing when you inspect your home.

Job 5:25

You will also know that your offspring will be many
and your descendants like the grass of the earth.

Job 5:26

You will approach the grave in full vigor,
as a stack of sheaves is gathered in its season.

Job 5:27

We have investigated this, and it is true!
Hear it and understand it for yourself.