Job 5, side by side

¹“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

¹Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

²For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

²For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

³I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

³I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

⁴His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

⁴His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them.

⁵The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

⁵Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.

⁶For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

⁶Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

⁷Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

⁷Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

⁸However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

⁸I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

⁹the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

⁹Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number:

¹⁰He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

¹⁰Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields:

¹¹He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

¹¹To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety.

¹²He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

¹²He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

¹³He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

¹³He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.

¹⁴They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

¹⁴They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday as in the night.

¹⁵He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

¹⁵But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty.

¹⁶So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

¹⁶So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth.

¹⁷Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline of the Almighty.

¹⁷Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

¹⁸For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

¹⁸For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole.

¹⁹He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

¹⁹He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.

²⁰In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

²⁰In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword.

²¹You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

²¹Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

²²You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

²²At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

²³For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

²³For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

²⁴You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.

²⁴And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin.

²⁵You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.

²⁵Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth.

²⁶You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

²⁶Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.

²⁷Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”

²⁷Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.