Job 5

Thomson^{(i) 1} Appeal now, will any one answer. Or shalt thou see any of the holy angels? ² Passion indeed transporteth the foolish, and envy killeth the wanderer. ³ Now I have seen the foolish taking root, but their sustenance was quickly consumed. ⁴ Let their children be but far from safety, and insulted at the gates of minors, there will then be none to deliver them. ⁵ For what they have collected the righteous shall eat. Nor will they themselves be exempt from wrongs, should their power be exhausted. ⁶ For trouble cannot come forth out of the earth; nor will affliction spring up from mountains. ⁷ [a] But man is born for trouble, as the young of the vulture soar aloft, ⁸ [b] No, indeed; but notwithstanding this, let me supplicate the Lord. And call upon the Lord, the master of all, ⁹ who doth great and unsearchable things; things glorious and wonderful, not to be numbered. ¹⁰ Who giveth rain on the earth and sendeth water on all under heaven. ¹¹ Who setteth on high them who are low, and raiseth up them who have been ruined. ¹² Who changeth the counsels of the crafty, so that their hands can perform no enterprise. ¹³ Who entangleth the wise in their wisdom, and defeateth the counsel of the artful. ¹⁴ In the day time, darkness shall meet them, that they may grope at noon day as at night, ¹⁵ and that they may perish in battle, and the weak escape from the hand of the mighty. ¹⁶ And that the feeble may have hope, and the mouth of the wicked be stopped. ¹⁷ But happy the man whom the Lord correcteth. Therefore despise not thou the correction of the Almighty. ¹⁸ For He causeth pain and again removeth it: and him whom he smote, his hands have healed. ¹⁹ From six distresses he will deliver thee, and in the seventh evil shall not touch thee. ²⁰ In famine he will deliver thee from death, and in battle save thee from the edge of the sword. ²¹ He will hide thee from the scourge of the tongue: and thou need'st not be afraid of impending ills. ²² At the wicked and unrighteous thou shalt laugh; ²³ and of savage beasts need'st not be afraid; for the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. ²⁴ Thou shalt know that thy family is at peace, [a] An objection. [b] The answer. and that the provision for thy household shall not fail. ²⁵ Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great: thy children shall be like the grass of the field. ²⁶ And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe grain cut in due season; or like a heap from a threshing floor, carried home in time. ²⁷ Behold these are the things which, by investigation, we have found to be so. These are things which we have heard: apply them to thyself, if thou hast done any thing.