Thematic Bible
Job 5:1 (show verse)
"Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
Job 5:2 (show verse)
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
Job 5:3 (show verse)
I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.
Job 5:4 (show verse)
His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,
Job 5:5 (show verse)
whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Job 5:6 (show verse)
For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, neither does trouble spring out of the ground;
Job 5:7 (show verse)
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 5:8 (show verse)
"But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,
Job 5:9 (show verse)
who does great things that can't be fathomed, marvelous things without number;
Job 5:10 (show verse)
who gives rain on the earth, and sends waters on the fields;
Job 5:11 (show verse)
so that he sets up on high those who are low, those who mourn are exalted to safety.
Job 5:12 (show verse)
He frustrates the devices of the crafty, So that their hands can't perform their enterprise.
Job 5:13 (show verse)
He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.
Job 5:14 (show verse)
They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.
Job 5:15 (show verse)
But he saves from the sword of their mouth, even the needy from the hand of the mighty.
Job 5:16 (show verse)
So the poor has hope, and injustice shuts her mouth.
Job 5:17 (show verse)
"Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty.
Job 5:18 (show verse)
For he wounds, and binds up. He injures, and his hands make whole.
Job 5:19 (show verse)
He will deliver you in six troubles; yes, in seven no evil shall touch you.
Job 5:20 (show verse)
In famine he will redeem you from death; in war, from the power of the sword.
Job 5:21 (show verse)
You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, neither shall you be afraid of destruction when it comes.
Job 5:22 (show verse)
At destruction and famine you shall laugh, neither shall you be afraid of the animals of the earth.
Job 5:23 (show verse)
For you shall be allied with the stones of the field. The animals of the field shall be at peace with you.
Job 5:24 (show verse)
You shall know that your tent is in peace. You shall visit your fold, and shall miss nothing.
Job 5:25 (show verse)
You shall know also that your seed shall be great, Your offspring as the grass of the earth.
Job 5:26 (show verse)
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
Job 5:27 (show verse)
Look this, we have searched it, so it is. Hear it, and know it for your good."