Job 5:1-10 ▼

1 Call, I pray thee! Is there any that answereth thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

2 For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.

3 I myself saw the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer:

5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance.

6 For evil cometh not forth from the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

7 For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.

8 But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;

9 Who doeth great things and unsearchable, marvellous things without number;

10 Who giveth rain on the face of the earth, and sendeth waters on the face of the fields;