Thematic Bible
Job 5:1 (show verse)
"Call now! Is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
Job 5:2 (show verse)
For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.
Job 5:3 (show verse)
I myself have seen the fool taking root, but suddenly I cursed his place of residence.
Job 5:4 (show verse)
His children are far from safety, and they are crushed at the place where judgment is rendered, nor is there anyone to deliver them.
Job 5:5 (show verse)
The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
Job 5:6 (show verse)
For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,
Job 5:7 (show verse)
but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:8 (show verse)
"But as for me, I would seek God, and to God I would set forth my case.
Job 5:9 (show verse)
He does great and unsearchable things, marvelous things without number;
Job 5:10 (show verse)
he gives rain on the earth, and sends water on the fields;
Job 5:11 (show verse)
he sets the lowly on high, that those who mourn are raised to safety.
Job 5:12 (show verse)
He frustrates the plans of the crafty so that their hands cannot accomplish what they had planned!
Job 5:13 (show verse)
He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the counsel of the cunning is brought to a quick end.
Job 5:14 (show verse)
They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope about in the noontime as if it were night.
Job 5:15 (show verse)
So he saves from the sword that comes from their mouth, even the poor from the hand of the powerful.
Job 5:16 (show verse)
Thus the poor have hope, and iniquity shuts its mouth.
Job 5:17 (show verse)
"Therefore, blessed is the man whom God corrects, so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.
Job 5:18 (show verse)
For he wounds, but he also bandages; he strikes, but his hands also heal.
Job 5:19 (show verse)
He will deliver you from six calamities; yes, in seven no evil will touch you.
Job 5:20 (show verse)
In time of famine he will redeem you from death, and in time of war from the power of the sword.
Job 5:21 (show verse)
You will be protected from malicious gossip, and will not be afraid of the destruction when it comes.
Job 5:22 (show verse)
You will laugh at destruction and famine and need not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
Job 5:23 (show verse)
For you will have a pact with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.
Job 5:24 (show verse)
And you will know that your home will be secure, and when you inspect your domains, you will not be missing anything.
Job 5:25 (show verse)
You will also know that your children will be numerous, and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
Job 5:26 (show verse)
You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.
Job 5:27 (show verse)
Look, we have investigated this, so it is true. Hear it, and apply it for your own good."