Job 5  Holman Christian Standard Bible

5 Call out if you please. Will anyone answer you?
Which of the holy ones^(A) will you turn to?
² For anger kills a fool,
and jealousy slays the gullible.^(B)
3 I have seen a fool taking root,
but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.
⁴ His children are far from safety.
They are crushed at the city gate,^(C)
with no one to rescue them.
⁵ The hungry consume his harvest,
even taking it out of the thorns.^[a]
The thirsty^[b] pant for his children’s wealth.
⁶ For distress does not grow out of the soil,
and trouble does not sprout from the ground.
⁷ But mankind is born for trouble^(D)
as surely as sparks fly upward.

⁸ However, if I were you, I would appeal to God
and would present my case to Him.^(E)
9 He does great^(F) and unsearchable things,
wonders without number.^(G)
10 He gives rain to the earth
and sends water to the fields.^(H)
11 He sets the lowly on high,
and mourners are lifted to safety.^(I)
12 He frustrates the schemes of the crafty
so that they^[c] achieve no success.
¹³ He traps the wise in their craftiness
so that the plans of the deceptive
are quickly brought to an end.^(J)
14 They encounter darkness by day,
and they grope at noon
as if it were night.^(K)
15 He saves the needy from their sharp words^[d](L)
and from the clutches of the powerful.
¹⁶ So the poor have hope,
and injustice shuts its mouth.^(M)
17 See how happy the man is God corrects;
so do not reject the discipline of the Almighty.
¹⁸ For He crushes but also binds up;
He strikes, but His hands also heal.^(N)
19 He will rescue you from six calamities;
no harm will touch you in seven.
²⁰ In famine He will redeem you from death,
and in battle, from the power of the sword.^(O)
21 You will be safe from slander^[e]
and not fear destruction when it comes.^(P)
22 You will laugh at destruction and hunger
and not fear the animals of the earth.
²³ For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field,
and the wild animals will be at peace with you.^(Q)
24 You will know that your tent is secure,^(R)
and nothing will be missing when you inspect your home.
²⁵ You will also know that your offspring will be many
and your descendants like the grass of the earth.
²⁶ You will approach the grave^(S) in full vigor,^(T)
as a stack of sheaves is gathered in its season.

²⁷ We have investigated this, and it is true!
Hear it and understand it for yourself.