Job 5

1 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? ¹ ‡ Job 15:15Job 15:8-10Job 4:18Isa 41:21-23Eph 1:1Heb 12:1Isa 41:1Deu 33:2-3 +22 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. ² ‡ Ecc 7:91Sa 18:8-9Gen 30:1Hos 7:11Job 18:4Pro 12:16Psa 107:17Psa 14:1 +73 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ‡ Psa 73:18-20Psa 92:7Act 1:20Deu 27:15-26Jer 12:1-3Job 24:18Job 27:8Psa 37:35-36 +24 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, neither is there any to deliver them. ‡ Psa 127:5Job 18:16-19Psa 119:155Amo 5:12Exo 20:5Job 1:19Job 10:7Job 27:14 +55 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. ‡ Lam 2:16Hos 8:7Jer 51:44Jer 51:342Ch 33:11Deu 28:33Deu 28:51Isa 62:8 +9

6 Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; ³ ‡ Isa 45:71Sa 6:9Job 34:29Psa 90:7Amo 3:6Deu 32:27Heb 12:15Hos 10:4 +17 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward. ^{4 5} ‡ Job 14:1Gen 3:17-19Ecc 5:15-171Co 10:13Ecc 1:8Ecc 2:22Psa 90:8-9 8 I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause: ‡ Psa 50:15Job 22:21Psa 37:52Ch 33:12-131Pe 4:191Pe 2:232Ti 1:12Job 22:27 +49 Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number: ^{6 7} ‡ Psa 40:5Job 9:10Psa 72:18Psa 86:10Job 11:7-9Job 37:5Isa 40:28Job 26:5-14 +310 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: ⁸ ‡ Act 14:17Jer 5:24Jer 14:22Psa 147:8Psa 65:9-11Amo 4:7Jer 10:13Job 28:26 +211 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. ‡ Psa 113:71Sa 2:7-8Luk 1:52-53Luk 6:21Psa 107:41Deu 33:27Ezk 17:24Jas 4:6-10 +412 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise. ⁹ ‡ Psa 21:11Psa 33:10-11Isa 8:10Pro 21:30Psa 37:17Act 12:11Isa 37:36Neh 4:15 +313 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. ‡ 1Co 3:19Psa 9:15-161Co 1:19-20Luk 1:51Psa 7:15-16Est 9:25Psa 18:26Psa 35:7-8 +614 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. ¹⁰ ‡ Job 12:25Deu 28:29Isa 59:10Pro 4:19Amo 8:9 15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. ‡ Psa 35:10Psa 140:12Psa 109:31Job 4:10Psa 10:14Psa 10:17Psa 107:41Psa 72:4 +116 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. ‡ Psa 107:421Sa 2:8-9Psa 63:11Exo 11:7Isa 14:32Psa 9:18Rom 3:19Zec 9:12

17 Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: ‡ Jas 1:12Psa 94:12Pro 3:11-12Rev 3:19Jas 5:11Heb 12:5-11Jer 31:18 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. ‡ Hos 6:1Deu 32:39Isa 30:26Psa 147:31Sa 2:6 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. ‡ Psa 34:191Co 10:13Psa 91:3-10Pro 24:162Pe 2:92Co 1:8 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. ¹¹ ‡ Psa 33:19Hos 13:14Gen 45:7Psa 37:191Ki 17:6Pro 10:3Hab 3:17Psa 27:3 +421 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. ¹² ‡ Psa 31:20Psa 91:5-7Pro 12:18Jer 18:18Psa 55:21Isa 54:17Jas 3:5-8Psa 57:4 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. ‡ Ezk 34:25Isa 35:9Psa 91:13Hos 2:18Isa 65:252Ki 19:21 23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. ‡ Lev 26:6Dan 6:22Isa 11:6-9Psa 91:12-13Hos 2:18Ezk 14:15-16Rom 8:38-39 24 And thou shalt know that thy tabernacle shall be in peace; and thou shalt visit thy habitation, and shalt not sin. ^{13 14} ‡ Psa 121:7-8Psa 91:10Job 8:6Deu 28:6Isa 4:5-6Job 18:21Job 18:6Psa 107:4 +525 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, and thine offspring as the grass of the earth. ¹⁵ ‡ Psa 112:2Psa 72:16Deu 28:4Gen 15:5Job 42:13-16Lev 26:9Psa 127:3-5Psa 128:3-6 +126 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. ¹⁶ ‡ Job 42:16-17Pro 9:11Psa 91:16Gen 15:15Pro 10:27Gen 25:8 27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good. ¹⁷ ‡ Psa 111:2Pro 9:12Job 32:11-12Deu 10:13Pro 2:3-5Job 12:2Job 15:17Job 15:9-10 +2