en_wbms - Job 5 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Therefore, Job, call thou, if there is any man that shall answer thee, and turn thou to some of [the] saints.

² Wrathfulness slayeth a fond [or foolish] man, and envy slayeth a little child.

³ I saw a fool with [a] steadfast root, and I cursed his fairness anon.

⁴ His sons shall be made far from health, and they shall be defouled in the gate, and there shall be none that shall deliver them.

⁵ Whose ripe corn an hungry man shall eat, and an armed man shall ravish him, and they, that thirst, shall drink his riches.

⁶ Nothing is done in [the] earth with-out cause, and sorrow shall not go out of the earth, that is, adversity befalleth not to any man without cause.

⁷ A man is born to labour, and a bird to flight.

⁸ Wherefore I shall beseech the Lord, and I shall set [or put] my speech to my God.

⁹ That maketh great things, and that may not be sought out, and wonder-ful things without number.

¹⁰ The which God giveth rain upon the face of the earth, and moisteth all things with waters.

¹¹ Which setteth meek men on high, and raiseth with health them that mourn.

¹² Which destroyeth the thoughts of evil-willed men, that their hands may not fulfill those things that they have begun.

¹³ Which taketh sly cautelous men in their own fellness, and he destroyeth the counsel of shrews or the depraved.

¹⁴ By day they shall run into dark-nesses, and as in night, so they shall grope in midday.

¹⁵ Certainly God shall make safe a needy man from the sword of their mouth, and a poor man from the hand of the violent, either raveners.

¹⁶ And hope shall be to a needy man, but wickedness shall draw together his mouth.

¹⁷ Blessed is the man, which is chastised of the Lord; therefore reprove thou not the blaming of the Lord.

¹⁸ For he woundeth, and doeth medicine; he smiteth, and his hands shall make whole.

¹⁹ In six tribulations he shall deliver thee, and in the seventh tribulation evil shall not touch thee.

²⁰ In hunger he shall deliver thee from death, and in battle from the power of sword.

²¹ Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of an evil tongue, and thou shalt not dread mis-ease, either wretchedness, when it cometh.

²² In destroying made of enemies and in hunger thou shalt laugh, and thou shalt not dread the beasts of [the] earth.

²³ But thy covenant shall be with the stones of earth, and beasts of earth shall be peaceable to thee.

²⁴ And thou shalt know, that thy tabernacle hath peace, and thou visiting thy fairness, that is, beholding thy prosperity, shalt not sin.

²⁵ And thou shalt know also, that thy seed shall be manyfold, and thy generation shall be as an herb of [the] earth.

²⁶ In abundance of years thou shalt go into the sepulchre, as an heap of wheat is borne [in] in his time.

²⁷ Lo! this thing is so, as we have sought; the which thing when thou hast heard, treat it in thy mind.