Job 5:1-10 ▼

1 Call out! Will anyone answer you? Which of the holy ones will you turn to?

2 For anger kills a fool, and jealousy slays the gullible.

3 I have seen a fool taking root, but I immediately pronounced a curse on his home.

4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed at the city gate, with no one to rescue them.

5 The hungry consume his harvest, even taking it out of the thorns. The thirsty pant for his children’s wealth.

6 For distress does not grow out of the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

7 But humans are born for trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and would present my case to him.

9 He does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

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