Job 5:1-10 ▼

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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