Job 5:22
Good News Translation
You will laugh at violence and hunger and not be afraid of wild animals.

New Revised Standard Version
At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
You will laugh at the threat of destruction and famine. And you won't be afraid of wild animals--

New American Bible
At ruin and want you shall laugh; the beasts of the earth, do not fear.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

laugh.

2 Kings 19:21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin, the daughter of Sion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn: the daughter of Jerusalem hath wagged her head behind thy back.

afraid.

Isaiah 35:9 No lion shall be there, nor shall any mischievous beast go up by it, nor be found there: but they shall walk there that shall be delivered.

Isaiah 65:25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent's food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 34:25 And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they that dwell in the wilderness shall sleep secure in the forests.

Context
Eliphaz Continues: God Blesses those who Seek Him
21Thou shalt be hidden from the scourge of the tongue: and thou shalt not fear calamity when it cometh. 22In destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: and thou shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the earth.23But thou shalt have a covenant with the stones of the lands, and the beasts of the earth shall be at peace with thee.…
Cross References
Job 8:21
Until thy mouth be filled with laughter, and thy lips with rejoicing.

Psalm 91:6
Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.

Psalm 91:13
Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under foot the lion and the dragon.

Ezekiel 34:25
And I will make a covenant of peace with them, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they that dwell in the wilderness shall sleep secure in the forests.

Hosea 2:18
And in that day I will make a covenant with them, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air, and with the creeping things of the earth: and I will destroy the bow, and the sword, and war out of the land: and I will make them sleep secure.

Job 5:21
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