en_cjb - Job 5 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ “Call if you like, but will anyone answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

² For anger kills the fool, and envy slays the silly.

³ I watch as a fool establishes roots, but I curse his home with sudden [destruction] —

⁴ his children are far from help, publicly humiliated, with no one to rescue;

⁵ the hungry eat up his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, while the thirsty are panting, eager to swallow his wealth.

⁶ For misery does not come from the dust or trouble spring from the ground.

⁷ No, people are born for trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

⁸ “If I were you, I would seek God; I would make my plea to him.

⁹ For God does great deeds beyond investigation, wonders beyond all reckoning.

¹⁰ He gives rain to the earth, pours water down on the fields.

¹¹ He raises the lowly on high and lifts mourners to safety.

¹² He frustrates the schemes of the cunning, so that they achieve no success;

¹³ trapping the crafty in their own tricks and foiling quickly the plans of the false.

¹⁴ They meet with darkness during the day, groping at noon like at night.

¹⁵ But he saves the poor from the sword, their mouth, and from the clutches of the strong;

¹⁶ so the poor can hope again; and injustice shuts its mouth.

¹⁷ “How happy the person whom God corrects! So don’t despise Shaddai’s discipline.

¹⁸ For he wounds, but he bandages the sore; his hands may strike, but they also heal.

¹⁹ He will rescue you from six disasters; yes, in seven no harm will touch you.

²⁰ In famine, he will save you from death, and in war, from the power of the sword.

²¹ You will be shielded from the lash of the tongue, and you won’t have to fear destruction when it comes —

²² you’ll be able to laugh at destruction and famine. Also you won’t have to fear wild animals,

²³ for you will be in league with the stones in the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

²⁴ You will know that your tent is safe; you will look round your home and miss nothing.

²⁵ You will know that your descendants are many, your offspring like grass [growing thick] in the fields.

²⁶ You will come to your grave at a ripe old age, like a pile of grain that arrives in season.

²⁷ “We’ve looked into this, and that’s how it is; listen, and know that it’s for your own good.”